Dark Knight

[Lemuria]

Did you ever play with a DRK using a properly setup Apocalypse and Catastrophe... because just from reading this I can tell you never did...

Uh huh... keep trying to convince yourself. Sure, they could heal a bit of HP... but anything stronger than your average mob would strip their HP down so fast that it made little to no difference. And yes, that INCLUDES the super-upgraded level 99 relic weapon! The only time you would see a Dark Knight tank 'properly' is by downing a Primeval Brew... and only because it basically turned you into a god for a few minutes.

Heck, the heals wouldn't make much difference anyway since many bosses were strong enough to one-shot a Dark Knight if they accidentally stole aggro.

[Alkimi]

Uh huh... keep trying to convince yourself. Sure, they could heal a bit of HP... but anything stronger than your average mob would strip their HP down so fast that it made little to no difference.

That same boss would do exactly the same to a Paladin. Blame Utsusemi for them never fixing defence properly.

Only when they introduced Ochain and fixed Aegis did that game get anything resembling a proper tank. And it was still useless for anything but tanking adds due to the ridiculous "enmity cap" system.