Dark Knight

[Exstal]

I requested for someone to go into the various references on wiki an pull out points made describing the class Dark Knight as a class that would make it defined as tank type to put some light on my points from a different perspective because I am totally ready to look at this from another perspective and want to get enriched by that. Instead I get a list on the warrior.

It's a durable job and *could* have been a very good DPS. But Square Enix looked at it in the light of "oh, this could take hits back in the day, make it a tank since we don't have many reasonable options for this".

I'll say it here, your original list is just based on old games showing Dark Knight as DPS, it had some ability to take hits, usually better than most classes because of armour spec. Warrior was the same way. But SE decided to choose Warrior as a tank instead of a DPS. The underlying message is Dark Knight has a chance to be a tank.

P.S. I am hearing the occasional person saying "DRK is going to be a tank." and I have to say this is not true in the slightest. Please look at the history of the Dark Knight before jumping to such a conclusion.

Maybe you 100% believe Dark Knight has no possibility of being a tank. Which is where you would be incorrect. That's all there is to it.

Now that that's out of the way, when they do introduce Dark Knight, if it comes as a DPS, it'll be just like any other melee DPS; chock full of positional skills. Personally, I would prefer if it was a Sword and Board DPS class but all the FFXI lovers would crucify me for that kind of thinking. But I find that scythe is super lame looking and was a terrible idea.

[Bloodclaw]

I'll say it here, your original list is just based on old games showing Dark Knight as DPS, it had some ability to take hits, usually better than most classes because of armour spec. Warrior was the same way. But SE decided to choose Warrior as a tank instead of a DPS. The underlying message is Dark Knight has a chance to be a tank.

Maybe you 100% believe Dark Knight has no possibility of being a tank. Which is where you would be incorrect. That's all there is to it.
Now that that's out of the way, when they do introduce Dark Knight, if it comes as a DPS, it'll be just like any other melee DPS; chock full of positional skills. Personally, I would prefer if it was a Sword and Board DPS class but all the FFXI lovers would crucify me for that kind of thinking. But I find that scythe is super lame looking and was a terrible idea.

I would have some doubt. Even now I have a slight bit of it; I am 99.95% sure it will be a DPS. However with the aesthetic appearance of the WAR I am more concerned that if they ever think about insisting the DRK be a tank, they will say, oh we already have a dark tank, and move on.