Dark Knight

[Parodine]

hm..... IMO DRK in FFX-2 was extremely tanky.

Just out of curiosity, how so? Looking at their job skill-list, it's all status effects and damaging abilities.

If there were any tanks in that game, Berserker with its counters and Samurai with its self-buffs and interrupts probably fit the bill more.

[silentwindfr]

Very much this, i just wanted to actually kill things with a sword without having to tank. My group of friends i play with already have a huge problem with EVERYONE wanting to tank as it is.

I have also never played XI, so good luck trying to play that card with me.

if samurai will come, you can expect it to be a dps now

[Hollow_Tears]

I was hoping DRK would have been a DD but oh well just another job I will level and slowly gear but not play beyond doing stuff in open world.

[Xoriam]

Just out of curiosity, how so? Looking at their job skill-list, it's all status effects and damaging abilities.

If there were any tanks in that game, Berserker with its counters and Samurai with its self-buffs and interrupts probably fit the bill more.

Maybe the skills weren't so much, but i remember once I got DRK thats all I used because it took pretty much no dmg.

[ExiaQuanta]

I lol i remember in FFX-2, all i did was DRK all the way through the game. Good HP pool and did good dmg lol

a bit surprise seeing it as a tank. was kinda hoping for Scythe DPS user. But Oh well. Keep going SE!

[Rosalynd]

if samurai will come, you can expect it to be a dps now

The class that should be DPS becomes a tank and the class that should tank becomes a DPS. Kinda backwards if you ask me, but its not likely to happen anyways.

SAM will end up being the tank of the next expansion, calling it now.

[EdwinLi]

I will like to point out the reason why Dark Knight may not have a class is because it is a Advance Job.

Yoshi-P mentioned back in 2.0 he has plans for Advance Jobs that will require may be 2 Jobs to unlock such as the example he used being Red Mage requiring both Black Mage and White Mage.

Though I question how a Dark knight will work as a Tank since in past FF lore the Dark Knight was known for being a DD Job with tank like stats that was used to keep itself alive while it used its own HP to perform High DD level damage.

[bs3311]

Hell, it's a GREAT SWORD for crying out loud. Anyone's initial thought with such weapon types would be to CUT THINGS!

No, there initial thought would be to gain MASSIVE attention.

Greatswords also bring intimidation/attention to your enemies. In MMO words, HUGE AGRRO PULL! Plus your slashing at the boss, whats wrong with that when your a Tank?

The class that should be DPS becomes a tank and the class that should tank becomes a DPS.

Samurais would have little to no defense, given with parry's or not. There armor was not meant for the tanking type unlike full armor. At least with DRK, you could have different playstyle options. take full damage and attack to regenerate health, or lower health to deal good damage and inflict debuffs. Plus, these DRK's sound like they are going to be a bit different.

[mdha02]

When they said they were adding DRK, it was pretty obvious it was going to be a tank class. Did they not say they were adding a tank, a dps, and a healer? Well if ROG/NIN is the dps and we were still waiting on hearing about the tank and healer classes, it's pretty easy to figure out it would be a tank. I think it will make a cool tank. Why would they release another DPS class? We have plenty of those. Going back many years ago when FF2 was released, before we knew it was actually the 4th game in the series, on SNES Cecil was a DRK and he was considered a tank.

[Hammerfist]

Wow, the Dark Knight as a tank who uses 2-handed swords was the job I was hoping to see the most and they delivered it! I'm so happy that they made this choice, I almost can't believe it xD

Btw Dark Knight was really the best option as a classic tank job: as a DPS it would have been a complete waste, especially since there are already too many DPS jobs (even more if you also consider rogue/ninja and a future gunner class).