Dark Knight, or Paladin?

[Valkyrie-Amber]

but again end game farming take pld mt war ot then take 2 + minutes longer than a run that would go a smoothly for two mins less+ with drk+war.

[Phoenicia]

but again end game farming take pld mt war ot then take 2 + minutes longer than a run that would go a smoothly for two mins less+ with drk+war.

You must be joking if you really think that 100 DPS difference is going to make the fight last 2 minutes longer. Unless the fight originally lasts something like 2 hours.

If you think the difference between PLD and DRK DPS is more than 100 in an actual fight, then you've been playing with really bad PLDs (or you are one) that have no idea of how to DPS as PLD. PLDs can parse 800 DPS on a dummy. DRK can do like what, 910? that DPS was parsed back when Dark Arts had the bug where you could buff 2 abilities at the same time and that bug was abused. In a real fight PLD and DRK are REALLY close to one another with DRK having a slight advantage.

DRK toolkit is lacking behind PLD which requires more healing attention, look at Living Dead. PLD cooldowns are EASIER to plan around and a good healer can plan around the PLD's CDs and plan their DPS for maximum up-time.

With equally skilled PLD and DRK, at most, the difference in RAID DPS would be 100 DPS. If you think that's a reason enough to kick a PLD, then you are no better than those parties I'm calling bad. ANd if you think 7600 raid DPS is MUCH worse than 7700 raid DPS then you REALLY need to rethink the way you approach things in this game.