I support this thread.

Us receiving Occult Acumen and Tactical Parry is almost infuriating. My reaction when I read the patch notes on Tactical Parry was literally to just look at the screen in dumb disbelief and uttering "what the hell?".

It's been covered in this thread already but, just to restate:

1. Give us a worthwhile critical hit weaponskill
2. If our JAs are going to sacrifice aspects of ourselves, make them far more powerful
* as an extension of this, I argue that DRK using Souleater should be the most powerful DD in the game because no other DD literally has to damage themselves to do damage. Without Souleater for the purposes of balance I feel it should be below WAR and other pure DDs, although not by a mile...
3. Magic. Make it worth casting - possibly allow us to swing while casting. We don't care about elemental magic. We're not asking to be WAR #2 but the reason most of us don't really care about our magic is because it sucks. Since it sucks, and has sucked for a long time, essentially DRK becomes "WAR with Stun" to serious DRKs. Endark is pretty good but shorten its casting time or allow us to cast while meleeing! Dread Spikes is pretty good.
4. More specialised but: Caladbolg delay is hideous and the weaponskill/weapon itself is a joke compared to Fudo/Masamune. Please put some StoreTP on it or adjust the delay!
And there's probably more but I forget

And no, DRK is not fine outside Abyssea. It's just not AS far behind.