Quote Originally Posted by Zyrusticae View Post
This talk confuses me.

I don't know why people are assuming these jobs would have anything to do with one another or would be branched off of an existing base class. If anything, I would think that both SAM and DRK would be the jobs of entirely new classes; for example, Blade Master (Katana/Great Katana) -> Samurai and Knight (Greatsword) -> Dark Knight. Their fighting styles are not compatible with one another; great katanas (which are curved, single-edged swords) are simply not wielded in the same way as greatswords (which are bigger, straight, and double-edged). DRK could also end up using scythes, which no current DoW class is anything close to.
Funny bit of history... the original appearance of the Dark Knight in Final Fantasy III had them using the "Dark Blades" Ashura, Kotetsu, Kiku-Ichimonji and Masamune and Cecil's 3 Dark Blades in Final Fantasy IV were straight single blade swords similar in design to Edge's Katanas.