Introduce a new tank and make dark knight DPS again

[Izsha]

You're playin yourself if u think ffxiv was not heavily influenced by ffxi...its not my fault i loved and enjoyed drk as a DPS for YEARS in ffxi...but again i dont expect any of the new crowd to understand. Carry on with this broken mess of a job and let me daydream about the glory days

I played FFXI for a decade and I still don't agree with you. That's just like, your opinion man. But it is utterly ridiculous and a giant waste of dev time/resources to scrap a job in its entirety and make 2 new ones (drk dps and new tank) just to appease a tiny fraction of the playerbases nostalgia. FFXI capped out around 500k players. FFXIV hit 10m. FFXI did inspire a lot of what this game became, but its delusional to think the playerbase of XI is so special and powerful it can demand things like this with any force.

[MonteCristo]

How would someone like you even know what the current state of DRK is

Cuz ive mained it since it dropped in HW.....and played it almost exclusively since Ffxi's BETA many years ago...its been my main for over 10 years between 2 different mmos...Can u say the same?

[MonteCristo]

Yes, instead of fixing it, the devs should absolutely scrap things and start over because you think anybody cares about your nostalgia.

I was just voicing my opinion since when was that crime? I could care less about any of the disagreements any of you have. I was solely making an opinion...if you have an issue with that ignore the post

[MonteCristo]

I played FFXI for a decade and I still don't agree with you. That's just like, your opinion man. But it is utterly ridiculous and a giant waste of dev time/resources to scrap a job in its entirety and make 2 new ones (drk dps and new tank) just to appease a tiny fraction of the playerbases nostalgia. FFXI capped out around 500k players. FFXIV hit 10m. FFXI did inspire a lot of what this game became, but its delusional to think the playerbase of XI is so special and powerful it can demand things like this with any force.

Again its just my opinion...note to self: dont post anything on these forums cuz if people disagree with you theyll gang up n break out pitchforks lol....so much for free speech yall win ✌

[Izsha]

Again its just my opinion...note to self: dont post anything on these forums cuz if people disagree with you theyll gang up n break out pitchforks lol....so much for free speech yall win ✌

Its not about freedom of speech. Its being remotely realistic about what your asking for. IIRC SE said it took over a year to develop ninja. You are suggesting we toss out a similar amount of work used to make drk, spend that time all over again making a replacement tank for it, and even more to redesign drk into a DPS to appease a small fraction of people that see drk in the way FFXI presented it. Its just not practical at all. Not a judgement that Drk 'should or should not have been a dps' or whatever. We can play the hindsight game all day, but moving forward you have to be slightly practical looking at where we are, not where we wish we would be if different decisions were made.

[Tint]

Again its just my opinion...note to self: dont post anything on these forums cuz if people disagree with you theyll gang up n break out pitchforks lol....so much for free speech yall win ✌

that's called democracy.

and we just want to make clear that we don't share your opinion. you sure can voice your opnion, that's free speech. but we also voice our opinion, otherwise one could think we agree with you.

if you just want to voice your opinion without any feedback do that on the lodestone or any other blog. or send it directly to the devs, there is an ingame feature for that.

[Kathyz]

Good can you imagine a job that use his HP for DPS in here?... as Healer 1/2 time... you going to die and theres nothing in my ability to prevent it xD.

[Azerhan]

Can't we just get back the DRK 3.0?
There were less topic about the DRK during this time...

[whiskeybravo]

I'd only go as far as saying that if SE does not substantially fix DRK then we are better off without it. That doesn't mean I think they should turn it in to a DPS (couldn't be that hard tbh, take off grit and remove enmity modifiers and it's 90% there) I just don't see how having a 3rd wheel gimpy ass tank benefits us as a community. It doesn't. Fix it or delete it.

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[Kabooa]

but that's what they do to most classes each patch anyway lmao

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