Quote Originally Posted by Marisela View Post
Final Fantasy 6, Cecil was a Tank. He was a Dark Knight that turn into a Paladin later in the game. So it still make sense Dark Knight is a Tank. Sure they are DPS in FFXI, but they were met to be Tank class until the community turn Ninja into a Tank class, so they don't want to released another Tank class and make Dark Knight a DPS.
By that logic, Kain was also a tank (actually properly geared even more tanky than Cecil itself) so Dragoons should also be tanks.

Now, through the versions of all FF, DRK have been resistant HP absorb DPS classes, with a defence mainly from using heavy armor but not much more than that, on the other hand, they usually carry black magic, defense ignoring attacks, HP sacrifice high damage attacks, HP drains, several debuffs (basically defense and resistance reductions) all things you expect to see in a DPS/Debuffer class. Armor doesn`t determine the role of a class. So "historically" DRK have been always closer to what DPS is than a tank.

BUT, each FFXIV is unique and devs can make anything of anything if they want.

Now, if the DRK is going to be a hell knight clone of L2, ok, but i swear, nothing screams DPS more than a knight sword (what greatswords of dark and holy knights are called) def-bypassing damage skills like Darkness or HP sacrifice skills that augments strenght or straight make tons of damage... But hey, make him a tank, he is only missing a black coeurl.