Wishing for Dark Knight

[Gilraen]

Which applies to Summoners. It doesn't need to be a big of a deal that it wont be integrated 100% like previous titles made them out to be.

I'll give you that it will be a bummer for a lot of people that like previous integrations of the job yet Dark Knight doesn't need to be a DPS role it can easily be a tank with DPS output.

The rub with that is that we already have a tank like that, it's the Warrior. With enough built-up Wrath (something they build up pretty quickly, I might add, even without their instant Wrath action), they can even get some burst DPS going like Dragoon. Making Dark Knight just an emo flavor of Warrior isn't really diversifying.

[tyniwins]

Came to this thread thinking it said Whiffing for Dark Knight and notice I was completely wrong.

[Lord_Zlatan]

Making Dark Knight just an emo flavor of Warrior isn't really diversifying.

agreed 100%

Gormogon, I like your ideas, but id just play WAR then because it exists in the game already. I don't want to toot my own horn, but I think some of the stuff I posted earlier keeps DRK fresh. It would allow it to branch from its own class, while still keeping the jobs flavor from across the series, and simultaneously not making any classes/jobs redundant.

As an aside, I think managing a resource is a good thing for tanks. WARs manage wrath, and PLDs don't manage anything (should have to manage MP aside from flash spam). DRK tanks would have to manage their HP as a resource which is a dangerous game. A DRK tank would be really intense.

[Gormogon]

The rub with that is that we already have a tank like that, it's the Warrior. With enough built-up Wrath (something they build up pretty quickly, I might add, even without their instant Wrath action), they can even get some burst DPS going like Dragoon. Making Dark Knight just an emo flavor of Warrior isn't really diversifying.

It is but it doesn't have to be my suggestion can easily work as a DPS job as well by just modifying some words.

Regardless it can still easily branch off of Warrior yet it wont have that much access to spells. Which can also be solved if they introduced sub class/sub job that still works in conjunction to cross class or becomes its own thing.

Dunno why people give up on the idea of a second job.

agreed 100%

Gormogon, I like your ideas, but id just play WAR then because it exists in the game already. I don't want to toot my own horn, but I think some of the stuff I posted earlier keeps DRK fresh. It would allow it to branch from its own class, while still keeping the jobs flavor from across the series, and simultaneously not making any classes/jobs redundant.

As an aside, I think managing a resource is a good thing for tanks. WARs manage wrath, and PLDs don't manage anything (should have to manage MP aside from flash spam). DRK tanks would have to manage their HP as a resource which is a dangerous game. A DRK tank would be really intense.

Well if we kept it fresh and true to it's original nature it would end up more around the lines of being a bard which is a hybrid in which DRK tends to steal stats, debuff to buff itself, a lot as well as do damage where it sacrifices its own HP. BLM's already do with convert.

Not saying it's a bad thing but if we are go make a new class where the majority of the abilities are all based off absorbing stats, which is another primary thing DRK has going for it, it wont end well with the people that like DRK. IMHO.

It would be easier to manage DRK as a secondary job branching from Marauder if pushed as a DPS and if that's what people want that's what DRK loving community should aim for united not separated.

[Bloodclaw]

It not that for me.

DK is originally a DPS Melee Job in FF series designed around the DK to have High HP and tank like armor so he or she can sacrifice his or her HP for very high DPS rate. While DK's stats been known to be tank like to keep itself from being killed by overusing the HP consuming skills it has always been a DPS Job.

Yep. The only occurrence I have seen this class/job as an actual tank is X-2.

[Bloodclaw]

The rub with that is that we already have a tank like that, it's the Warrior. With enough built-up Wrath (something they build up pretty quickly, I might add, even without their instant Wrath action), they can even get some burst DPS going like Dragoon. Making Dark Knight just an emo flavor of Warrior isn't really diversifying.

Not to mention that the Warrior is a rather dark job already, in both concept and appearances.