Dark Knight

[IveraIvalice]

Assuming of course that they actually have those life sacrifice skills. From the sounds of it being a parry/dodge tank, it appears that the Dark Knight will be a Dark Knight in name and armour only.

It actually sounds more like a Rune Fencer right now.

That's exactly what I have been thinking. I don't have a very strong opinion on it but I am used to it being a DD from ffxi. If it's a tank here then I really think they are just gonna toss everything that made it a drk just so it can be different/a tank.
I'm not expecting to see any life sacrificing anything
Sounds like they're doing what they did with smn all over again

[Exstal]

I more or less expected this. I am not disappointed.

[Mickk]

I just read 35 pages of ; ;

I was not expecting Drk to be a tank... and was only a little disappointed because I wanted to switch from tank main and be a lazy DPS for Drk Drk totally fits as a tank though, and I'm looking forward to it. Guess my WAR will switch for DRK, and my MNK will switch for NIN.

The big thing that I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned yet is about the no base class... I'm really hoping I'm wrong here, but this could very well mean that they are adding new soul crystals to existing classes. It would make sense for a MRD to Equip a GS and a DRK soulcrystal... I just hope I'm wrong because I really don't want to be a lvl 50 DRK as soon as the expansion releases.

As for the QQ from the "it ruins the class" crowd, FFXI ruined DRK. Making it a tank with a greatsword is bringing it back to glory. I for one, can't F*kin wait!

[NeverYolo]

This tank better spam Drain / Drainga / DrainII and all sorts of TP skills that rip health away from the enemies and transfer it to him.
Self healing tanks rock. Blood Death Knight FTW.

[Viridiana]

This tank better spam Drain / Drainga / DrainII and all sorts of TP skills that rip health away from the enemies and transfer it to him.
Self healing tanks rock. Blood Death Knight FTW.

Except a lot of us watched it fail when they tried it with WAR. We'll see if they've learned how to do it, or if they'll go another route. . .

[NeverYolo]

Don't WAR and PLD have separate DPS / TANK 'stances' ?
Why does everyone have to rip on DRK on the 5 lines of text we got to go on them for right now...
I'm SUUUUURE they will have the same versatility, I'm SUUUURE they will have a HP draining stance that greatly enhances their DPS (perhaps huge boosts to enmity too, which could be a great tool for switching from DPS / off tank to taking over main tank) And I'm SUUUURE they gotta have some drain in their arsenal.

[Ghastly]

Paladin 3.0
Why SE...did we really need two sword tanks?

[Estevo]

You know, from someone who isn't satisfied with the current summoner/entire job system in this game, I think the dark knight being a tank is great, and at the very least it shouldn't change what you guys think of the job.

What upsets me about the summoner is it's lack of WOW factor, I summon those egis for the first time and feel... completely disappointed, and the gameplay doesn't change a thing. Essentially there's no drive behind them. But they were short on time, REALLY short, so it's fine, but now that they have that pressure of release off them, I think they're really going all out creative wise with the Dark Knight, I mean they sure didn't hold back with the outfit . On top of that there's no base class... this one statement, could be the beginning of something wonderful, after all, the jobs are where the real passion of the concepts come to fruition, I think the whole idea behind it was to want the marauder to get to the warrior, and the thaumaturge to get to the black mage, etc. but having the pure job and all those levels of abilities and mechanics from the get go could do wonders for gameplay! if they go on to give the rest of the current and future jobs this style we could have some wonderful, fully fledged jobs, I hope it turns out fantastic!

[Errors]

Paladin 3.0
Why SE...did we really need two sword tanks?

- PLD = Sword and Shield (1 handed weapon sword)
- WAR = Great Axe (2 handed weapon axe)
- DRK = Great Sword (2 handed weapon sword)

I'm not seeing the problem here?

[Munba]

Dark Knight as tank is just right. Wise choise indeed.