I recently picked up DRK and reading through the tooltips, DRK seems stronger than PLD in every way, higher potencies, constant 15% damage increase, more oGCDs.

But in practice, my DRK seems to just do less than my PLD... someone parsed me on a dummy for 3 mins and my PLD did 1411, my DRK did 1402.

They are both wearing the same gear, both have i260 weapons (PLD relic, DRK shire). And DRK even gets naturally more STR than PLD!

So I can't figure out how i'm doing less on DRK. is Fight or flight just strong enough to make up the gap in power and push PLD above DRK?