When would you take DRK over PLD or WAR?

[OliviaBadger]

I'll try to contribute to this by going through my experience with Alex and how I feel DRK performed.

A1 - Boss has a pretty even mix of magic and physical attacks - delirium useful and reprisal procced plenty. Even if you have a monk, there are two bosses at other ends of arena, so monk would DK the one you are not on. Sole survivor can be used on the ads

A2 - DRKs AOE damage really comes into play here. Plenty of use for DA'd abyssal drain for huge self heals. Abyssal with AOE damage is great. Plenty of use for sole survivor. DA with dark dance is just amazing for mitigating big packs.

A3 - Mostly physical damage on MT here so PLD wins out on this one, delirium useful if no monk for party wide damage. Plunge was useful for the ads.

A4 - Dark Mind was awesome on this. DA with Dark Mind and you can just pac-man gobble all the orbs. Sole survivor useful on ads.

A thing I'll add in general is..people look at DRKs set of CDs and say "its weaker than PLD", but souleater is a HUGE part of your mitigation. A sizeable self heal every 3 gcds is nothing to be scoffed at.
Overall I think the new raid is tuned very well to all three classes, and the deciding factor on who you take will be how good they are at their class, and not what class they play.