Quote Originally Posted by Sephirah View Post
Dark Knights are still Knights, and thus will be "tankier" than any other non-heavy armor wearing class, but they have always had an emphasis on damage over defense.
I wouldn't use the T-word for Dark Knights, especially remembering that a DRK barely had more defense than a DRG or BLM in FFXI (one of the few ideas I would want them to borrow from XI).

The drain's/self heals are WAR's thing in this game, so I don't see DRk taking part in that at all. What I do see it doing is a DPS that does umbral/dark damage and kind of go from there. Even if it did sprout from GLA, I wouldn't really expect it to tank. There's other jobs that better fit the tank archetype (SAM, Mystic Knight).