What about creating an ACTUAL Dark Knight?

[Reynhart]

Because for the first half of the game, you're paired with almost exclusively Wizards of some variety.

It's not because they're squishier than you that you are an actual tank. Before XIV, there was no DRK iteration than can be close to a tank. The most important part is that it never had any skill that could be related to tanking.

Son to go back to the "themes" of Dark Knigh before XIV, it was basically :

• Sacrifice HP for damage
• Absorb HP/MP/Stats
• Inflict status

And, like I said, you can probably make a tank out of this, with abilities costing HP to do damage, and a drain line of spells. Technically, you could use the absorb line as a justification for mitigation (Like putting Vulnerability while reducing damage received, absorbing defense, etc...)

Youre absolutely right, but pre fix the hp fluctuated so chaotically at times

What seems wasted to me is that because they only half-baked the "tank with high HP" concept, they completely thrown it away in 2.1. After all, since PLD had Rampart and Sentinel, WAR could have multiple "tier" of ToB, Inner Beast could have stayed at 300% damage converted into healing, but with any overheal increasing your max HP for a few seconds, etc...