Am I missing something about DRK?

[Yorumi]

Not really here to argue about the squishiness, but my point is just baseline sitting there I'm getting hit for more, and souleater health drain doesn't cover for that.

Are you sure you're geared the same? Drk wears the same armor as pld, so has the same def/mdef, grit = shield oath, the only real difference is RoH's str down but that would be easily made up for by SE. As far as cooldowns, shadowskin = rampart, dark dance is half the mitigation of bulwark but has 1/3 the cooldown. Shadow wall is 10% less than sentinel. Both have the same foresight and bloodbath.