I've been playing Paladin a lot recently and decided to switch back to my Dark Knight for some 80 dungeons, and I feel like Dark Knights are TERRIBLE at handling big pulls.
My routine is to immediately pop arms length and TBN, and TBN is eaten through in like 1 second. Since TBN is basically our entire defensive tool kit I have to almost immediately also pop shadow wall, rampart, Abysal Drain, etc. just to keep myself alive for the next 14 seconds until TBN is back. Then once that TBN gets eaten I'm helpless, so everything better be pretty close to dead.
Now obviously a good healer can keep you up well enough, but with my Paladin the healer barely mattered. I could keep myself up for a good 30 seconds easily with only a couple of CDs, Sheltron and clemency while the healer figured out where his heal button was. With my Dark Knight I don't even want to pull big in randoms. Am I not playing the class right is it really just that squishy?
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My routine is to immediately pop arms length and TBN, and TBN is eaten through in like 1 second. Since TBN is basically our entire defensive tool kit I have to almost immediately also pop shadow wall, rampart, Abysal Drain, etc. just to keep myself alive for the next 14 seconds until TBN is back. Then once that TBN gets eaten I'm helpless, so everything better be pretty close to dead.
Now obviously a good healer can keep you up well enough, but with my Paladin the healer barely mattered. I could keep myself up for a good 30 seconds easily with only a couple of CDs, Sheltron and clemency while the healer figured out where his heal button was. With my Dark Knight I don't even want to pull big in randoms. Am I not playing the class right is it really just that squishy?
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