Dark Knight Tank confirmed for 3.0

[Ultimatecalibur]

Goodbye paladins and warriors. Hello dark knight as 90% of the tanking population. . . Maybe I'm just a scrub tank, but I firmly believe it takes a particular mindset to be a good and respectable tank. With the popular and highly anticipated great sword wielding dark knight class gone tank, you have current tanks and dps/healers jumping on the dark knight bandwagon. I foresee a lot of crying on the tank forums when it comes out.

I expect their to be a bunch of players who take Dark Knight, level it a bit (or even to 60) and then stop playing it because they either don't want the responsibilities of being a tank or don't like its mechanics. Endgame active tank population will likely be fairly balanced.

I honestly don't mind dark knight as a tank, but it did rip up my high hopes of a samurai being a tank class... I like being a tank for the most part, and was banking on samurai to be my main - now with dark knight as a tank I dont know what to think or plan for. *Cries in a corner praying for samurai tank*

Samurai can still be a tank in the future. Dark Knight may have been chosen as the Tank class for the expansion to go with Heavensward's more medieval aesthetics.

[Vire]

Yeah I mean come on the last thing the game needs is a popular tank job right guys

[Talamasca]

I honestly don't mind dark knight as a tank, but it did rip up my high hopes of a samurai being a tank class... I like being a tank for the most part, and was banking on samurai to be my main - now with dark knight as a tank I dont know what to think or plan for. *Cries in a corner praying for samurai tank*

Idk, it might not be in this expansion, but it doesn't meant they won't add SAM as a tank.

[Theodin_Morgoth]

Well, I know what I'm doing once I get my Pally to level 50, cause even with me being 40 right now, I'm sure it'll take me that long to get to 50 and enjoy a bit of end game as Pally lol

[EinherjarLucian]

Goodbye paladins and warriors. Hello dark knight as 90% of the tanking population. . . Maybe I'm just a scrub tank, but I firmly believe it takes a particular mindset to be a good and respectable tank. With the popular and highly anticipated great sword wielding dark knight class gone tank, you have current tanks and dps/healers jumping on the dark knight bandwagon. I foresee a lot of crying on the tank forums when it comes out.

I honestly don't mind dark knight as a tank, but it did rip up my high hopes of a samurai being a tank class... I like being a tank for the most part, and was banking on samurai to be my main - now with dark knight as a tank I dont know what to think or plan for. *Cries in a corner praying for samurai tank*

You'll probably get Samurai if they ever do an actual Far East expansion, or our Japanese Doman friends reveal they have a few Samurai hanging around with them.

[Saigwa]

I like the idea of more tanks endgame, it's just going to be sad seeing little to no paladins/warriors when everyone is all about that great sword craze. If previous mmos have taught me anything, it's that great sword / dual wielders have always seemed to dominate populations in terms of filling their roles. However, I REALLY hope I am wrong in this aspect.

As for Samurai, who knows what SE will do. Everyone expected DRK to be a dps, but it came out as a tank. If there's one thing to learn from ffxiv or any ff game in general: previous titles are irrelevant. SE will do what it wants to do! Of course I'm still rooting for SAM to be a tank, if and when it ever comes out, but my overly depressing pessimistic self can't help losing faith xD

[EinherjarLucian]

Yeah I mean come on the last thing the game needs is a popular tank job right guys

Tank jobs are popular? When did that happen?

[EinherjarLucian]

I like the idea of more tanks endgame, it's just going to be sad seeing little to no paladins/warriors when everyone is all about that great sword craze. If previous mmos have taught me anything, it's that great sword / dual wielders have always seemed to dominate populations in terms of filling their roles. However, I REALLY hope I am wrong in this aspect.

As for Samurai, who knows what SE will do. Everyone expected DRK to be a dps, but it came out as a tank. If there's one thing to learn from ffxiv or any ff game in general: previous titles are irrelevant. SE will do what it wants to do! Of course I'm still rooting for SAM to be a tank, if and when it ever comes out, but my overly depressing pessimistic self can't help losing faith xD

No way, real tanks go Sword and Board.

[chidarake]

darknight as tank sounds fun but it will all depend on skill set and how it plays.

personally I play pld when tanking but I really like war as well just have a lot less experience with it.

in all likelihood I will just switch between all tank classes assuming I am playing the game in another 6months.

[Warrlordd]

Having another tank with a new tanking paradigm is good. Experienced tanks will still enjoy WAR/PLD, but now there will be more choice with what tanking pair you choose to employ.