Dark knight

[Mattelot]

My personal opinion is that if you aren't playing the job to its full potential (and many of the suggestions made lately seem to indicate such) in its current iteration, you shouldn't be calling for a new/different one. Some of the ideas put forth have been terrifying, and it personally grills my cheese when someone tries to get SE to redesign a job I can play very well, as in my mind that reads "The job should play like this and all the people that can play it well as-is should have to relearn the job they way I want it." DRK isn't a perfect, flawless job, but most of what it needs are very very small tweaks, and most of them are utility-based or very, very small defensive tweaks. Its DPS is PERFECTLY FINE where it is. DRKs that are trailing behind their WAR buddies by hundreds of DPS are doing something wrong. Assuming you both have full uptime a DRK should only be a very small amount behind WAR or matching the WAR depending on the fight. The gap between WAR and DRK DPS is pretty much slashing-debuff-sized. WAR is also a very popular job and is frequently OTing where DRK is MTing, and is often given preferential treatment in raids, which accounts for bigger differences you may see on FFlogs.

My personal opinion is that you can. You shouldn't have to play the game the way some random person expects you to before you're entitled to your opinion.

DRK doesn't lose anything other than Blood Weapon by going into Grit. You still get to use all of your highest potency attacks, and if you're in Grit its assumed you're tanking something, which means you get Low Blow and Reprisal Procs as well.

Statements like yours irk me because hundreds, maybe thousands of us have done the math ourselves (even if we suck at math, like myself) or checked the math of others out of intellectual curiosity to know things like what you're calling into question and asking us to prove again, just for you, because you decided to remain ignorant.

I have no idea who these hundreds or thousands of people are. I only asked a question. You said that the DPS difference is minimal however, I would expect to see more than a 24:1 ratio on the leaderboards. Nobody is being ignorant. I'm just not naive. If someone states something to be true, I sometimes ask for proof. If you don't want to prove what you say, that's your choice.

Honestly with SSS now there's zero excuse for not having mathed out this kinda stuff yourself.

How do you figure there is "zero excuse?" I've not "mathed it out" myself. Now what?