A little worried.

[Steady]

Personally, I can't help but think that DRK was made Tank, simply because they felt it was the best way to get more tanks. DRK is a popular class, those who love it are gonna grin and bear being a tank instead of a DPS. I would think in terms of gameplay, it was a good choice for tank if only because there is a population out there currently not playing tank who will now play tank because of this job.

[Rufalus]

Personally, I can't help but think that DRK was made Tank, simply because they felt it was the best way to get more tanks. DRK is a popular class, those who love it are gonna grin and bear being a tank instead of a DPS. I would think in terms of gameplay, it was a good choice for tank if only because there is a population out there currently not playing tank who will now play tank because of this job.

Yes, I agree placing a popular job into a relatively unpopular role was probably deliberate for that reason. I remember at the London Fest, Yoshida implored people to please tank.

[Yhoiryo]

Personally, I can't help but think that DRK was made Tank, simply because they felt it was the best way to get more tanks. DRK is a popular class, those who love it are gonna grin and bear being a tank instead of a DPS. I would think in terms of gameplay, it was a good choice for tank if only because there is a population out there currently not playing tank who will now play tank because of this job.

It's going to be interesting, being someone who picked up DRK right away in FFXI, it was always the job people had made fun of for being a "sub-par" dps job. Seeing it as a tank job on FFXIV will be nice though, I can only guess that they'll have some nice HP absorbing and HP sacrifice moves in there arsenal.

But you're right I'm glad it's a tank class in some degree, cause if it was another dps class well ... there would just be so many.