Quote Originally Posted by Emitans View Post
I do not understand how Dark Knight, who's design has encouraged counterattacking since its FFXIV debut, is supposed to be a supportive tank, but Paladin is a counterattacking tank. Despite it's supportive fantasy and it continues to have Passage of Arms (with an AoE heal added to it). This is not the complaint of a salty DRK main. It's actually my second favorite tank. PLD is the job I raided savage on.
DRK has not have any mechanics related to parry for multiple expansions now. TBN doesn't yield you any extra dps(*) nor does it require you to be the MT to use. From pure job fantasy perspective DRK being a designated OT is a perfect opportunity to actually bring the OG FF DRK job fantasy which is spending HP for DPS, something XIV DRK never had except for PvP DRK designed by Mr Prime. PvP TBN and Shadowbringer interaction is 10x more interesting than the effective MP refund we have now.

Regarding dev panel PLD: yes PLD got a heal follow up on wings, but it lost the healing effect on Divine Veil so that's not really a buff, and Divine Veil went from 90s to 120s cooldown, so overall its party support got nerfed. We've only seen half of the horse for now and we won't really know what they mean to do with offtanks until we see an example.

(*) You get a little bit of aDPS gain by banking dark arts for 2min burst, but even that you usually do by putting TBN on a squishy for a raidwide before 2min comes up.