Dark Knight

[KoujiGeki]

This is correct. Like the ninja, the DRK was never meant to be a tank. Its designed roll is to be a damage dealer. Yes in this game there is some strong similarities between a DRG and DRK, however if you have played a DRK in XI, you know what its about and whats unique. A dragoon does lancing damage with hug jumps A dark knight uses dark arcane powers to enable him to pull tricks off running the gambit and deal devastating blows to the enemy due to his willingness to do damage and risk himself.As to RDM I very much believe we will see it as a tank. A RDM can do everything, jack of all trades, and the only class type that can do everything is a tank. Its just that simple. As to this and DRK as a tank; no, DRK don't really wear heavy armor as a common aspect of the class. Please read the link in the OP. While this can occur, it is not apparently a common-place aspect of the class. If the wiki is wrong, please give evidence/links.

Only in 11 was the first MMO to have it as a DPS , Wow, Evererquest, and Age of Conan, Dark or or the Variation was a Tank opposite Pld instead of healing magic it absorbed life to keep self topped of. And the funny part is, you people all want dd lets not for get that SE copied Warlock from wow and called it summoner, and copied wow itself and called it AAR. So most likely SE is gonna just copy DK drom wow and make it a tank, might as well just accept it.

[Bloodclaw]

Only in 11 was the first MMO to have it as a DPS , Wow, Evererquest, and Age of Conan, Dark or or the Variation was a Tank opposite Pld instead of healing magic it absorbed life to keep self topped of. And the funny part is, you people all want dd lets not for get that SE copied Warlock from wow and called it summoner, and copied wow itself and called it AAR. So most likely SE is gonna just copy DK drom wow and make it a tank, might as well just accept it.

Then why are you here? Go play wow, it is still much more popular. Yeah they copied the summoner, and I am not too happy about that. However this thread is about the dark knight. So please go complain about it else where and I will be more than glad to join you by saying the summoner needs to be more focused on pets than DOT. However here your sounding like a troll.

[KoujiGeki]

Then why are you here? Go play wow, it is still much more popular. Yeah they copied the summoner, and I am not too happy about that. However this thread is about the dark knight. So please go complain about it else where and I will be more than glad to join you by saying the summoner needs to be more focused on pets than DOT. However here your sounding like a troll.

well i was a Shadow Knight in Everquest and i thoroughly loved it and it was a tank job btw. and i hate wow why would i play it. i played 11 since ps2 release all the way to Adolin i loved 11 cause it wasnt wow, so now that 14 as a wow clone with a hint of FF pepper on it ya i have small expectations. and so fair everything so far has been disappointing so far but i expected it. so just accepting they are gonna copy wow with dark knight will get the sting out when it happens, and if they dont copy wow well then everyone wins.

[Shurrikhan]

well i was a Shadow Knight in Everquest and i thoroughly loved it. and i hate wow why would i play it. i played 11 since ps2 release all the way to Adolin i loved 11 cause it wasnt wow, so now that 14 as a wow clone with a hint of FF pepper on it ya i have small expectations. and so fair everything so far has been disappointing so far but i expected it. so just accepting they are gonna copy wow with dark knight will get the sting out when it happens, and if they dont copy wow well then everyone wins.

You may say that, but at least a Death Knight would have more than 8 combat abilities... What WoW does or doesn't do will have been decisions fitting WoW, and their initial class design decisions are usually fairly decent. Conversely, just to take the SMN banter for example, sticking a job into a DoT-priority class just because it's there to add as a label onto something unrelated is far more alike to a stale copy-paste to me. And the problem is that SE appears to have made that their style, or what's 'fitting' for them, given their rigid system. Barebones through and through. They slice off all the burger's fat and wonder why it comes out dry...

That said, our current classes are at least in a decent enough place. It's just painful to know that we'll never really feel that sense of Final Fantasy versatility found in the single player games.