New Dark Knight Tank

Dark Knight is a DPS. There are plenty of established tank jobs in the franchise to pick from if they want to add another one.

Just to throw around as a thought, while dark Knight got alot of attention in 11, It's been an FF staple since as early as Final Fantasy 2 (Leon), and Most Notable Dark Knight from 4, Cecil. They have always used a sword and shield in the olden days, and as it stands the current sword/shield combo is a tank, so its a very real possibility Dark Knight could become a tank class. 11 made dark Knights into a dps class, so please don't solidify them into it. they "could" very easily swing both ways, and personally I'd love it if they made Dark Knight a Pure "Blood/Lifesteal" tank. Much more lifesteal abilitys than the current warrior layout.

On an addendum to this post, why not Rune Fencer? When can I have a more Magic Defence Tank for content that does purely magic damage (Stares at Ramuh).

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Originally Posted by Nyghtmarerobu

They have always used a sword and shield in the olden days, and as it stands the current sword/shield combo is a tank, so its a very real possibility Dark Knight could become a tank class.

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Sword & Shield is not "a tank", it's Gladiator's arm.
The only thing you could say is that its a very real possibility that Dark Knight could evolve from Gladiator.
And it'd be useless to give another Tank job to Gladiator that would have 15 skills shared with PLD.

Honestly, I'd be extremely upset if they introduced Drk as a tank, it's always pretty much been a DPS class.

But I am pretty excited to look badass with a scythe!! Hell yeah!

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I really like scythes >.<

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Originally Posted by Drakanous

From what I remember of Dark Knights in XI, they primarily focused on 'drains' and 'absorbs'

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Those were the bad DRKs.

But the idea's sound; they could certainly make a drain-oriented tank here.

Could also do a variation of what XI had; give them a trait that makes them uninterruptable for a short time after a parry, like PLD had with shield blocks. Give them Lancer secondaries and then you could even have times the tank would use BfB if they had a Dread Spikes ability. (short term "shield" where damage received gets drained 100% to a max amount, effectively negating all physical damage for a short time)

But yeah, too many DRK dps fans would rage.

Someone said DRK was tank in IX?? If so I believe RDM was a better TANK. ^^;

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Originally Posted by Moqi

Dark Knight is a DPS. There are plenty of established tank jobs in the franchise to pick from if they want to add another one.

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"Plenty"

There's like 2 more possibilities. Templar and Viking (which is what Warrior seems to be).

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Originally Posted by Nicobo

Someone said DRK was tank in IX?? If so I believe RDM was a better TANK. ^^;

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There was a phase where drk/nin or nin/drk tanked stuff.

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Originally Posted by Serephine

But I am pretty excited to look badass with a scythe!! Hell yeah!

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Scythes only existed in FFXI, so don't get your hopes too high.

But with the flashy animation, it'd look really cool, yes :)

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Originally Posted by Exstal

"Plenty"

There's like 2 more possibilities. Templar and Viking (which is what Warrior seems to be).

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Samurai

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