Who else's not looking forward to Dark Knight?

[Risvertasashi]

I think there needs to be a "cool" tank job to get the tank population up. Yes, people flocking to anything will lead to lots of bad ones but we'll get some good ones too.

On a more personal level... heavily defensive tanks appeal to me the most (only PLD in this game). But I think SE will have noted WAR's popularity for its more aggressive style and that will carry over to DRK; so I doubt it will be interesting to me. This is kind of a pity because an MP-based tank would otherwise be really appealing.

[Suda]

I have been leveling a warrior this passed week to get prepared for DRK. So far I'm enjoying tanking as a warrior and I think im pretty decent at all the dungeons so far. I haven't hit 50 yet but I was doing this to get myself used to tanking since I rarely tank in MMO's. DRK may be my first tank main in an MMO ever.

[VargasVermillion]

But I really like the simplicity of PLD for raids, as Raid Leader, being a PLD allows me to mechanically do my comboes and at the same time paying attention to what everybody else is doing and call out moves or strats on real time. So is a job well suited for that.

Nevertheless I also enjoy Warrior a lot (and I do most of the time my roulettes on WAR) and will for sure level and try out DK.

To be fair, most players shouldn't need to think much about their skills by that point, just becomes automatic when you've played the job enough.

[VargasVermillion]

As for looking forward to DRK, I most certainly am.
I originally played both warrior and pally based on what the other tank was in 8mans but I'll probably switch warrior with DRK since I prefer swords to axes.

[TruebladeNuke]

Looking at the name "Derp Knight" reminds me of what I said in a Linkshell once.

"Dark Knight is probably going to have an identity crisis when it first releases. Everyone's going to be trying to play it as a DPS class aside from the already experienced Tank players who actually know how to Tank."

[Ashkendor]

With the new videos and info coming out. Dark Knight seems to be getting labeled as the new "Cool Job". How many DPS who have never tanked before are going to be flocking to it? As well as all the FFXI players that played DRK as a DPS....

Don't know about you. But am going to be avoiding the dungeons until patch 3.0 cools down a bit.

Nobody's gonna know how to play it till we get it. That just is what it is. Even experienced tanks are going to need some time to learn what the skills are and how they work. As far as DPS players flocking to it, they may level it (eventually) but most of them will probably get bored with it or will only use it for faster dungeon queues. The vast majority of people that stick with DRK are going to be people that are already tank mains or already have enough of a handle on tanking that they find a new tank class attractive. I don't think it'll be any worse just because of DRK. You'll get good tanks, you'll get bad tanks. No different than it is now.

I started this game as a PLD main and am now playing WAR as well. Definitely looking forward to DRK. Tank trifecta!

[Blueskyy]

suits them better playing a class that is easy and contributes almost nothing by comparison than to play one that can potentially contribute the most to a group?

i'm really not worried about it. if you can melee dps, you can tank. they are exactly the same.

Actually it's the other way round lol

[TouchandFeel]

Actually it's the other way round lol

Yeah, I too feel it is easier to go from tank to dps than the other way around, especially for WAR since the job is more rotation based similar to melee dps.

For dps, I feel that you can be more focused on your singular goal of "kill stuff fast" where as with tank there is more you have to pay attention to and keep track of. When tanking I often end up having to pay more attention to what the rest of the party is doing than what I am doing.

[Seaverin]

am not concerned about DRK, what i'm concerned about is, can DF not break when expansion comes out. The whole "judgmental elitist" thread will start again here when expansion comes, so its the same ol crap way back in beta. People new to tanking are acceptable as long as they are willing to learn and main that job, but after 1 yr playing this, some people just SUCK and w/e you do you can't change it. I guess /quit when you see one lul

[Firepower]

In FFXI I was always DRK then when ToAU came out I lvl'd COR to be a bit more useful in some endgame places.

In FFXIV I first levelled WAR to 50 and used it up to Garuda EX, the majority of my WAR playing time was before the buff and before it had any damage mitigation. I switched from WAR to MNK possibly because in the early turns of coil playing WAR pre buff was a joke. I don't really remember but I enjoyed MNK enough to let my WAR gather dust since then, I am very likely to switch to DRK, I liked tanking back as WAR just never bothered switching back. I am also going to get Machinist to 60 too and see which one I prefer, maybe after all that I will just end up staying MNK lol..

The main attractor to a class to me is the weapon, Great Sword being possibly my favourite, Big guns and robots are cool too so maybe Machinist appeals, I just play MNK as it is the job I like the most at the moment.