The Best Writeup I've Seen About Current DRK Status + Concerns - Check it out!

[stoxastic]

Definitely agree with a lot of this. Especially DRK's complete lack of value as an OT. Honestly, I would never let a DRK OT in any party composition, it's just an awful idea.

Lucrezia would beg to differ (Ravana Ex):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmhmbzwASX0

Parse:
http://i.imgur.com/HneKGxq.png
DRK 834 DPS

DRK isn't as bad as ppl make it out to be. Maybe one tweak from the OPs suggestions might be OK. Give them all of that and the job will be too broken.

[Kiteless]

Lucrezia would beg to differ (Ravana Ex):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmhmbzwASX0

Parse:
http://i.imgur.com/HneKGxq.png
DRK 834 DPS

DRK isn't as bad as ppl make it out to be. Maybe one tweak from the OPs suggestions might be OK. Give them all of that and the job will be too broken.

I've seen that video and parse, and I'm willing to bet that the only reason they brought DRK as an OT was because they didn't want to compromise their limit meter gains with two WARs (keep in mind, the WAR only parsed lower because, as MT, there are portions of the fight where he can't attack). This speedrun is a very niche situation, and that DRK is only valuable because he provides extra meter gain (and isn't hurt by horrible TP sustain, thanks to Ravana's constant downtime).

[Mike555]

Lucrezia would beg to differ (Ravana Ex):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmhmbzwASX0

Parse:
http://i.imgur.com/HneKGxq.png
DRK 834 DPS

DRK isn't as bad as ppl make it out to be. Maybe one tweak from the OPs suggestions might be OK. Give them all of that and the job will be too broken.

Adding what others posters already said, nobody can run out of TP on ravana because even with the ridiculous mechanic skipping they achieved there is still plenty of downtime. DRK runs out of TP in literally 2 minutes if they have 100% uptime which is a complete joke when you consider that WAR has infinite TP and can rival their DPS and PLD will always be MT where they can Shield Swipe to at least slow down the bleeding. DRK OT is situational as heck, and not in the sense that it's decent in some and amazing in some others but that it's garbage most of the time and only good in some.