Dark Knight

[Rhysati]

Just logged on to say that nothing screams "DD" louder than a job that historically sacrifices HP to deal more damage.

Thanks Square for destroying that.

Just because that's how YOU see it doesn't mean they destroyed anything. Let's take a look at one of the big-daddies of MMO history: Everquest. They had a class called the ShadowKnight who used magical diseases and other spells to do damage and tank. They could sacrifice health to do more damage as well as drain life from their enemies.

You also have the DeathKnights in World of Warcraft that were originally designed as nothing but tanks.

Or, the big grand-daddy of them all: Dungeons and Dragons. They also had a Death Knight class that always maintained a little bit of tankiness.

The idea of a Dark Knight has always had that 'tanky' feel to it outside of the FF universe.