Dark Knight Confirmed

[Stumpedify]

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

Right, and it was purely an example that shouldn't be read too much into. A source quote would be nice, so I can read it in Yoshi's words. But either way, it contradicts other live letters where they mentioned DRK. For example:

Q: Do you plan on implementing great swords?
A: Well, the development team was saying before that they'd have to do this at some point, and I'm thinking it will be when they add the appropriate class or job. It could be samurai, or perhaps dark knight, but only the battle team knows for sure. Still, it's definitely something we'd like to do.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...804-17-2013%29


Although, reading that again... He does mention Job, not just class, which goes to show that he has thought about allowing classes to pick up different weapons for their jobs. So it is possible that DRK may well branch off GLD. Too many contradicting ideas thrown around the place. In the end we will just have to wait and see. At least we know unofficially that SAM and DRK are coming in the expansion.

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.

Yeah, I remember them mentioning reworking the job system but it sounded to me like it was just ideas they were considering. If something does come of it then all this speculation is wasted time. :P

[Kastraan]

I hope its a tank so i can actually be excited about this class.

[Felis]

Batman glamour gear, I say it
Or Hildibrand in the Batman role.

[Aura_Shurifon]

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.

They could add scythe and made them usable for DK only (DK can use sword or Scythe...) and it wouldn't be a problem !

[Sarynth]

Somehow, I think everyone knew it was on the way.

The real thing I wanna know is if it is having its own class...

My guess is the dev team might look into dropping the armory system in 3.0 so they can be more flexible in designing new jobs. To the op, thanks for sharing this I loved dark knight in xi.

[Dyne_Fellpool]

I really hope we get DK and Samurai and that they are both tanks.
2 new tank jobs and 2 new healer jobs would be great!

I think my personal "top 5" list of new jobs I want to see for 3.0 would be:

Dark Knight (tank)
Samurai (tank)
Dancer (DoW healer)
Chemist (DoW healer)
Red Mage (DoM melee dps)

More healers and tanks would just be really good for healthy role distribution.

I'm interested to see if they can balance 4 jobs against each other as well as they have balanced 2. Right now class balance in this game is really very good for an MMO (imo), but that seems sort of easy to do when you only have to balance 2 tanks against each other and 2 healers against each other.

[Hik0]

Yoshi dropped huge bomb that dark knight will be in 3.0! Discuss!

At end of dev discussion, fans asked for a hint at new jobs, yoshi said battle lead dev was going to wear a shirt but couldnt find it.. it was his batman shirt, specifically Christopher nolan's batman

- next job is morpher with 1st morph being bat.
- next job is ninja and ninja pvp set is a bat set (big hint, you hear it first!! ).

[Balipu]

Everyone is hyped for Dark Knight job and on the 25th, Yoshida reveals the new job: Joker

[RyuDragnier]

I hope its a tank so i can actually be excited about this class.

Batman ain't no tank, he's a DPS. He's just like DRG, he specializes in burst, but has a little more survivability than the other DPS classes. Haven't you seen how it only takes a few hits to take out those trash mob henchmen while he can take somewhat of a massive beating?

[faris]

Last resort + Souleater please.