Quote Originally Posted by MihaelB View Post
The most basic use of DRK with no tactical knowledge or skill is using Living Dead to node delay, being a defender and spamming skills such as Abyssal Drain to stay alive and delay the opponent from taking your node .

Once you know your rotations and have experience, you can expand to deal damage in fights but if you want to do damage, you might as well pick a DPS in my opinion.

They offer flying stuns and other nifty tricks but I feel jobs such as Paladin stun better and Warriors do more damage overall, their niche is living dead and disturbance AOE skills.
Ah, it wasn't so much that I anticipated doing particularly nice damage, but I found it a lot more difficult than Paladin and I had trouble finding any avenue that compensated for the fact(other than node delay as you say, but I can do that on my Bard as well). It might have been partly down to not having the best equipment since I only even bothered trying it as DRK for the sake of some tomes, but I get the impression that it's not a class I would get the hang of very well in PvP when compared to Bard or Paladin.

Of course, I'm not passing this as any evidence of it being a lacklustre class in PvP, just not something I personally manage well with.