Dark Knight

[Roffel]

Obviously you don't kno the lore of drk. There is only 2 times they had 1 handed weapons and that was tactics and 4. Everywhere else they had gs and scythes. Ur looking for diff when all they were are brutal and evil sacrificing there own life for sheer power. Trying make its own class AND job would be a hell of alot more work then adding 5 job abilities and armor. The skills are there why not just use them. The animation is amazing for Mrd. Mrd has the capibilities of being a great dps give. This would give them that.

[Kitru]

Everywhere else they had gs and scythes.

On only 1 occasion did DRK have a scythe and that was FFXI. There's better precedent for DRK to use a sword and shield than there is for them using a scythe. Also, you're forgetting FF2, wherein Leon the original dark knight, was a spear/shield specialist. Cecil was also a sword and shield user, rather than a greatsword user and he's basically the foundation of the entire DRK archetype in FF. It's only in the most recent iterations that DRK has become synonymous with greatswords.

I'm not disagreeing with you that they should use greatswords, though. It's just that, if you look at their historical appearances, there's more precedent for them to use 1h and shield than there is to use a 2h sword.

Trying make its own class AND job would be a hell of alot more work then adding 5 job abilities and armor.

And yet adding 5 abilities wouldn't really make a DRK based off of GLA that's actually compelling to play. It's one of the reasons why you're not like to see any DPS class based off of GLA (or CNJ): they're too vested in their base role that you're not going to make a compelling DPS playstyle with just 5 abilities, and, if it's not compelling to play, what's the point? A lot of classes are simply too vested in a single role to ever get another job, since it's highly unlikely they'll ever double up on jobs with a given role for a single class. THM, ARC, GLA, and CNJ are all basically locked to a single job. LNC and PGL have some potential to be turned into tanks, and MRD has some potential to be turned into a DPS (it's substantially more problematic than turning LNC/PGL into tanks), but, honestly, it's much more likely that they'll only have double jobs for classes built with it in mind because, elsewise, you're liable to get mechanics that don't work for both or too many abilities that are only useful to one job.

[Bloodclaw]

On only 1 occasion did DRK have a scythe and that was FFXI. There's better precedent for DRK to use a sword and shield than there is for them using a scythe. Also, you're forgetting FF2, wherein Leon the original dark knight, was a spear/shield specialist. Cecil was also a sword and shield user, rather than a greatsword user and he's basically the foundation of the entire DRK archetype in FF. It's only in the most recent iterations that DRK has become synonymous with greatswords.

Wellll, lets see how that holds up.

FF2: Favored weapons were two handed, specifically Axe and Spear. While not as proficient with it as an axe, his most powerful weapon is a spear.

FF3: Sword and shield were options not sure how useful/prevalent though. Seems equal with others.

F4: Both sword and shield as well as spears where used. Mostly spears favored with the Dark Knight. The Dark Knight art often looked like a dragoon and wielded a spear. In "The After Years" When facing his evil self, the dark knight it is wielding a spear as well.

F10-2: Actually a tank class that can wield a sword 1 handed and 2. But no mention of a shield.

F11: Two handed weapons, Sword and Scythe.

However, judging that the job will probably be from the Gladiator class to keep people from specializing in both Paladin and Dark Knight, there is a good possibility of a shield and sword dark knight. However I still think that a new precedence of a two sword wielding dark knight could be there. Likely hood is not much though.