Dark Knight/Samurai? I want to hear some opinions.

[Moqi]

I honestly don't get the appeal of either. If I had to pick a "Melee Slashing DPS", I'd like to see Spellblade or Parivir (although Ninja sounds very close to that already) or Templar as Tank.

Personally, I would really like to see a take on FFTA's Templar. A lance and white mage based tanky class, using spells like Barrier and Astra to mitigate or avoid damage. That is probably a pipe dream though. A Geomancer or Elementalist type class would also be interesting as a hybrid DPS/Healing caster. (You have no idea how much I'd love to see a Tactics inspired Geomancer running around with a 2-hand axe blasting doods in the face with lava)

Looks like I found another Tactics fan

SE could try to do something different with Dark Knight and turn the job into a "Drain tank" where you steal HP, DEF, VIT from mobs and sacrifice HP for DEF.

Templar has some abilities like that. It's more about buffing party members and debuffing enemies/draining MP rather than pure tanking.

[FriendlyUncle]

I honestly don't get the appeal of either. If I had to pick a "Melee Slashing DPS", I'd like to see Spellblade or Parivir (although Ninja sounds very close to that already) or Templar as Tank.



Looks like I found another Tactics fan


Templar has some abilities like that. It's more about buffing party members and debuffing enemies/draining MP rather than pure tanking.

Love me some Tactics, bro.

I think Templar would be great, I would hate to see LNC branch off into another DPS class which I think SAM would almost have to branch out from unless they make a brand new base class. So I think making it go into Templar and making it more tank centric would be interesting and give people with capped Lancers an entirely new type of game play. MRD I could totally see easily branching into Berserker or Geomancer but that would take a bit of work that I'm not prepared to do at this moment in time.

Dark Knight I don't know if I would want it as a tank like EQ had in Shadow Knights or WoW with Death Knights. The scythe/GS wielding Dark Knights that have become iconic would require a new class, I would not be opposed to it. (I'm mostly bitter about DRK because a friend from FFXI would never shut up about his) Another interesting possibility as much as it annoys me, branch it off from MRD into Hell Knight (another Tactics job. IM SORRY!) which I'm fairly sure could wield 2h axes. It could perform as a tank if you really wanted it or with tweaks through the Hell Knight/Dark Knight soul stone act as a DPS.

Really think right now we need another ranged attacker, healer, and something that deals blunt damage. If I haven't reached my daily limit I'll come back here after work. Discuss this some more.

[Sonofbaldo]

Simple. Who cares. Every job added is just a clone of another job with a different name and the same essential abilities with different names and animations themselves. When all is said and done, it's the same ol' in a different wrapper.

[Exstal]

Simple. Who cares. Every job added is just a clone of another job with a different name and the same essential abilities with different names and animations themselves. When all is said and done, it's the same ol' in a different wrapper.

Are you sure your eyes work?

[Warrlordd]

Simple. Who cares. Every job added is just a clone of another job with a different name and the same essential abilities with different names and animations themselves. When all is said and done, it's the same ol' in a different wrapper.

Yeah because I play my monk the same as BLM the same as WAR the same as SCH....

[Serwrathim]

Really think right now we need another ranged attacker, healer, and something that deals blunt damage. If I haven't reached my daily limit I'll come back here after work. Discuss this some more.

How about a DRK Tank that swings a hammer....