Quote Originally Posted by MiniPrinny View Post
As a veteran of the series as a whole, I noticed immediately that DRK took a lot of elements from the Mystic Knight/Rune Fencer Job. It's an older Job dating back to FFV, long before DRK became truly defined, a Job which fought by enchanting their weapons with various spells, usually from the black magic spell pool. Dark Knight in FFXIV isn't a far cry from that, and that may have been what they were trying to evoke with the change. I still dislike it though!

Just a point of note: DRK was defined in FF4. Technically Leon in FF2 was a DRK, but the role wasn't really defined back then. The main character, Cecil, was a Dark Knight. And he was pretty much the definitive design of what a DRK is supposed to be. A tough, high damage dealing job that sacrificed HP to deal even more damage.

The FFXIV DRK is actually much closer to the original DRK design (Cecil) than any other role, including Magic/Mystic Knight and Fencer. FFXI was close, but DRKs were way too squishy to really be what a DRK was intended to be.