TheChannelTV2010: Suffering is part of Dark Knight's job identity.

overratedcynic9124: Alternative title: Is Gunbreaker still the top dps and why you should play the other tanks

SeikiKisaki: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" should've been their motto for DRK as well...

Nexiebean: Wait wait wait. I'm not sure if i'm tripping. I clicked on this video to learn about the all the tanks (Great video btw.) And the last clip where you're talking about DRK fighting the 4th boss in the raid the other DRK tank is me. That's my exact mog i was using and it's the same race. My character name would be N. E. too. I know this comment is sorta irrelevant but I just wasn't expecting to see myself when clicking to watch this video haha XD

tannerwilkins7583: dark knight is the strongest tank by far of all the suffering it has endured for 3 expanions now

luckyels3034: Seeing Drk: look at how they massacred my boy

The_Remage: [Cries in remembering the HW & StB DRK]

conroconro: Dark needs more of an identity because right now it doesn't really have anything besides .

Before it used to be THE tank with high damage and a way to mitigate an ally on a short cooldown, but all tanks have a targeted cooldown now.

It could be the tank that has a kit suited for self healing without being locked to a specific window like Warrior.

Give Oblation a weak Bloodbath effect.

Give Salt and Darkness a 200 potency heal per enemy hit -- giving the Dark Knight a reason to choose a time to detonate it.

Let Abyssal Drain be it's own cooldown.

Give Carve and Spit a 500 potency heal.

Legit any one of those or a combination would make it feel like so much less of a burden in dungeon content without completely breaking it in Savage and Ultimate.

majinbobbyhill828: Spoiler alert: WARs still have their entire kit

deatherage9458: Fell cleave makes brain do happy chemicals.

Cobatsart: The huge downgrade DRK got in both gameplay and damage going into dawntrail makes me very sad. Even if they buff the potencies, the job still just doesn't feel as satisfying to play, and its a massive shame.

Dark knight's high APM gameplay is what I loved about it so much (in addition to its glams being so cool), now it's just a very cool looking, but boring job to play with mediocre output. This in addition to being the least self-sufficient tank means there's very little reason to pick it unless you just really like the aesthetic.

quilavaflare1990: As a DRK main, yeah these changes just aren't great and it is probably the "least ideal" tank rn. But honestly the part that's going to be much worse than any actual in-game changes will be all the people online blowing it so far out of proportion that PF groups are going to start doing the baby whining and demanding you change jobs or leave because DRK does 3% less damage than other tanks, even though I would perform significantly better on it than anything else.

Edit for clarification: Not referring to this video, Rinon usually has more level-headed takes that I really appreciate.

armemor9216: Coping for a new tank next expac

AbriDragon: A thing to note for WAR with double tankbusters, and double anything for that matter, is that Nascent Flash heals both you and your target. This is 3200 healing potency combined, plus the dinky little 400 potency shield on your target.

shikaare: rip drk esteem was a real one

phiefer3: There's a misconception in the DRK section. DRK does not have less blood gauge than it did in EW, it actually gets more bloodspillers over the course of a fight than the EW version. Yes, you lost 20 gauge per minute due to the merging of blood weapon and delirium, but you also gained 50 gauge every 2 minutes because Living Shadow is now free.

syaojyn: I legit want the weaves back for gnb, it's one more weave than pld. Proactive use of mitigation feels smart/fun

WolfmanXD: Gunbreaker is so much fun, but my God is there a HUGE discrepancy between crit and non crit lionheart. My strongest crit lionheart to date is 113k, but when it doesn't crit it does less than 60k. It makes me cry when I go entire runs without seeing a lionheart crit.

My group is going gunbreaker (me) and dark knight. Because we don't care about meta and the other tank just likes dark knight. I literally rolled a dice before Dawntrail and it landed on dark knight, so ya.

TOAGamer1: Personally im fine with DRK lack of sustain however we need to be #1 in damage as a trade off.

RagnarokiaNG: It is good to hear you talk about Clemency and Cover as useful tools, I heard people throwing shade on them due to the damage loss or not being intervention but they have saved countless lives for me in casual content that they definitely earn their place.

Also RIP Plunge, it was always funny to get carried by the weight of the thrown dark knight sword to the enemy

manhattanblockade8544: Gunbreaker: LETS GO GAMBLING

No Crit: ah dang it

No Crit: ah dang it

No Crit: ah dang it

shikaare: it seems that Guardian's shield also gets bigger if its used under the effect of rampart

TRexLord152169: i play all four tanks to an extent and was a tank main for most

Kaeldo: I still main Drk with a lot of hope..and copium XD

TKBallad: Man.

I started this game approaching a year ago, and caught up this past early winter. DRK had been my go to for the entire time, it just felt like the right tank for me. During this past winter and spring, I started looking into high level content, made friends, and joined a proper static for the upcoming Savages here in a couple days now.

These DRK changes are so incredibly discouraging

"Hey, so that class that youve worked a majority of your playtime to master? Yeah we're going to just make it less fun, give it practically no reason to pick over other tanks, and let you question what those 1100 hours were for"

Aug 01 2024

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