Could we get a Great Sword Job/Class? (Dark Knight, possibly?)

[Marxam]

I feel specialized roles within classes would help with some diversity with party make ups. As it stands there is equal benefit to having either a war/war or pld/pld or pld/war. I want to see more trade offs when choosing classes. T7 and T8 are examples where there is no need for an ot even though there are mechanics that require tank swaps or add control. An ot is actually a hinderance due to the lack of dps in phases.

[IveraIvalice]

I want dark knight to have a scythe, a lot of things can wield a great sword but not many would feel right holding a scythe

[Mcshiggs]

I don't think anyone that has played this game can expect a great anything from these devs. You might be able to look forward to a class that uses some of these weapons though:
Adequate Sword
Nifty Sword
Just wait until 2.3 Sword
Eh, it will do Sword
Poorly thought out and implemented sword
We need a test server Sword
Please look forward to it Sword

[HakuroDK]

I always preferred to think of Dark Knights as the secondary, DPS-based job for Gladiators to offset Paladins.

For Greatsword users, I could see Samurai, Mystic Knight, and a handful of others.

[Marxam]

I don't think anyone that has played this game can expect a great anything from these devs.

Truer words were never spoken. Sad but true. They made too many obvious mistakes that make me question what they really want to do with the game and who they are trying to please. That's part of the reason why my sub is done next month.

[TheRogueX]

I always preferred to think of Dark Knights as the secondary, DPS-based job for Gladiators to offset Paladins.

For Greatsword users, I could see Samurai, Mystic Knight, and a handful of others.

DRK could still use greatswords though. Cecil, however, was sword/shield as a DRK, and he's sorta the original FF Dark Knight. This being said, there's no reason why a sword/shield character MUST be a tank. Shields can do lots of damage. Imagine DRK specific shields with spikes and some sort of damage rating to add to the potency from Shield Bash. DRK-specific swords could have slightly higher DPS via faster attack speeds, and maybe DRK could be limited to DRG-style 'medium' armors instead of PLD/WAR-style 'heavy' armors.

[Souljacker]

I'd prefer a scythe as well, tbh. I know that this is XIV and not XI and blah blah blah, but one thing I miss about BLMs in XI were the handful of scythes we could use, and the vast array of scythes and greatswords I collected for my Dark Knight. In fact, I'm still hoping that they scrap the whole armory system entirely because just being able to use 1 type of weapon per job is so limiting. They backed themselves into a corner trying to salvage this silly system.

[Deedsie]

DRK could still use greatswords though. Cecil, however, was sword/shield as a DRK, and he's sorta the original FF Dark Knight.

Just to be technical, Leon in FFII was the first.

[Lovescake]

Greatsword?

why not dual blades? or switchaxe, longsword, gunlance, lance, bowguns,

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

Scythes are botanist off-weapon so no scythes for DRK. (nice, is a knight not a harvester).

So, a Great Sword class, a simple Knight class would make sense using the famour Knight Swords then a job class for it, could be similar to ACN where it divides into two job, having a Holy and a Dark Knight, both iconic FF Knight Sword users. Maybe just have a Holy Swordsman Job and that`s it, /gg.



So we have a job incarnation of the most broken character in the history of everything.