Dark Knight Confirmed

[Morningstar1337]

Nonono, you guys have it all wrong.

Clearly, Batman is confirmed. You guys are reading too much into it.

Once upon a time, Bruce Wayne studied Superman's Silver-Age Krytonian tech and discovered a machine similar to the Phantom Zone Projector. He tinkered with it ans was whished away into Erozea and Ishgard, specifically. With only his wits, he seeks a way home, but realized that Ishgard is too similar to Gotham for him to ignore. So in his quest to return to His universe, he gathered a bunch of outsiders and taught them to be Batmen, feared by criminals as much as dragons are feared by Ishgardians, they become the heroes Ishgard deserves, bot not the heroes Ishgard needs.

#pleaselookforwardtoit :P

[Krr]

Speculated NA localizations of quest names -

Lv. 30 - The Dark Knight Returns
Lv. 35 - The Dark Knight Rises
Lv. 40 - Ishgard Asylum
Lv. 45 - The Hero They Need
Lv. 50 - The Hero They Deserve
LV. 50 - A Relic Reborn (Grapnel)

[Lemuria]

The big reason that they can do one-handed and two-handed Conjurer and Thaumaturge weapons is because the spell animations stay the same no matter what the character is holding.

Well.... no. They don't. As a Lalafell Black Mage, I cast attacks by swinging the weapon under my left arm and flinging it outwards. As a White Mage, I cast attacks similarly to how I cast cures, except pushing my staff towards the foe at the end. So, they do indeed have unique casting animations depending on the type of spell.

There's no reason why any weapons added wouldn't have their own unique animations either, or even unique casting animations for Dark Knight spells.

Personally, I have a hunch that Dark Knight will branch off Marauder (It makes the most sense) and be able to wield great axes, as well as have a few unique greatswords for levels 30+. No reason they couldn't change to a job-specific weapon type for DRK once you've unlocked it.

[Lucke]

Found the DRK AF!

[Danbo05]

Speculated NA localizations of quest names -

Lv. 30 - The Dark Knight Returns
Lv. 35 - The Dark Knight Rises
Lv. 40 - Ishgard Asylum
Lv. 45 - The Hero They Need
Lv. 50 - The Hero They Deserve
LV. 50 - A Relic Reborn (Grapnel)

I wouldn't be surprised if half of these were used, knowing how the dev team likes to throw in puns and easter eggs.

[Ultimatecalibur]

Well.... no. They don't. As a Lalafell Black Mage, I cast attacks by swinging the weapon under my left arm and flinging it outwards. As a White Mage, I cast attacks similarly to how I cast cures, except pushing my staff towards the foe at the end. So, they do indeed have unique casting animations depending on the type of spell.

There's no reason why any weapons added wouldn't have their own unique animations either, or even unique casting animations for Dark Knight spells.

I meant "cast a spell wielding a wand and shield and then cast the same spell while wielding a staff and the animations match to the spell." Casting Protect for example will follow the same animation no matter which class casts it or what they are currently wielding.

Personally, I have a hunch that Dark Knight will branch off Marauder (It makes the most sense) and be able to wield great axes, as well as have a few unique greatswords for levels 30+. No reason they couldn't change to a job-specific weapon type for DRK once you've unlocked it.

Depends on how you define "makes the most sense."

[Duelle]

Personally, I have a hunch that Dark Knight will branch off Marauder (It makes the most sense) and be able to wield great axes, as well as have a few unique greatswords for levels 30+. No reason they couldn't change to a job-specific weapon type for DRK once you've unlocked it.

Animations make that impossible. You'd have to mo-cap and adjust animations to simulate a great sword, as using a big axe and a two-handed sword requires different stances. MRD/WAR's arm placement and footwork is designed for the use of a great axe (one hand at the base of the shaft, one near the head of the axe; feet spread apart for weight distribution and balance). This same stance and footwork wouldn't work for a two-handed sword.

[Stumpedify]

I think they already said at some point that DRK was planned to be based off GLD.

I don't believe so. They always hinted at DRK being one of the future jobs/classes but I think the GLD association was solely speculation by players -- unless I missed something in a live letter at some point.

[Volsung]

I don't believe so. They always hinted at DRK being one of the future jobs/classes but I think the GLD association was solely speculation by players -- unless I missed something in a live letter at some point.

They at one point in an interview when talking about multiple jobs, mentioned
they were considering a system, where say if drk came off gld. then you had to
choose pld or drk, and could not take back your choice.

was a long time ago, and I hope they realised would have been bad lol

[silentwindfr]

recently yoshida did say that they aren't planning to realease another jobs for the actual class, that they are thinking to change some stuff in the class/jobs system, but we don't have really clear information about this. maybe at the fanfest of london that seems more... based on the jobs announcement.