In your darkest hour: DRK's identity crisis

[Reynhart]

Have you played FFIV? Or did you just look up the stats? DRK Cecil, until he stops being a thing around level 20~ is unmatched defensively and second only to Yang offensively. He has by default the highest effective HP up to that point and only Yang

Again, at that point, your party members are all mages except Yang, so having the highest HP, the best defense and the second highest offense is not such a tremendous feat. When compared to every other physical fighter, DRK Cecil is the weakest.

It's hard not to draw a connection to Cloud. Our /bstance, /vstance, and the male DRK /cpose are all homages to him, much like other jobs reference well-known characters in the series.

It's called wolverine publicity and the reason why every melee DPS draws a Buster Sword for their LB2, even when fighting bare-handed, long before DRK was created in XIV.

[shao32]

Again, at that point, your party members are all mages except Yang, so having the highest HP, the best defense and the second highest offense is not such a tremendous feat. When compared to every other physical fighter, DRK Cecil is the weakest.

DRK Ceil is the stronger job in every aspect in that part of the game, ffiv is a linear game,DRK Cecil dont need to scale properly bcs you cant complete the game as a DRK, in fact none of the jobs outside of PLD cecil, kain, rosa rydia and edge have a proper and fair stat progresion bcs only those 5 chars need it at the end of the game, Cecil DRK is worse that PLD cecil bcs DRK Cecil is only relevant on the begining of the story and he is pretty strong enough compared to yang, tella and palom- porom.