What is the General Consensus?

[Shurrikhan]

Honestly, for Dark Knight, it's not doom and gloom when it's the absolute truth.
Poor mitigation, lacking in offensive ability and an over reliance on multiple, separate resources.

And yet you're found in progression parties and top speedkills alike.

It's plain that DRK has disadvantages, gameplay-wise and technically and I'll agree they are worth fixing (though I'd suggest that many of the ones I most want for a more intuitive and engaging DRK should probably wait until Defiance buffs oGCD healing and some of the latest PLD nerfs are reverted at least partially).

But, it's also not to an extent that is actually forcing them out of compositions except in the circumstances where people could have been saved once per 90 or 120 seconds by Vit melds... or a DV/SiO, which usually come already as a fault of slow shielding on the AST's or SCH's part, or else amount to merely a more flexible use of CU, ES, Indom, or Assize.

Also, at 140 potency above Souleater's, or at a base equal to Souleater's DA use, a Bloodspiller as generated by TBN already pays off its own cost. It provides 140 potency. Just like every other viable ST use of DA outside of CnS.