Dark Knight Megathread

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...it would be more effective to just join in on the conversations and debates in the other Dark Knight threads, where several people have already been in discussion about various Dark Knight concerns and issues.
a attempt to create a "Dark Knight MegaThread" from scratch is not going to go well... it would be more of ease to just increase activity in any of the Dark Knight threads that already have over a dozen pages of complaints, concerns, concepts, ideas, and suggestions posted, shared, debated, and criticized.

1 / 5.x ShB Dark Knight is boring, dull, simple, gutted to death, the worst of all tanks, had its own identity taken away and never given back, was ruined and destroyed instead of fixed, but doing that was the "fix"; is barely aught more than a copy-and-paste re-skin of Warrior, a mere WAR clone, but most of the copy-and-past WAR clone actions that Dark Knight has, are also inferior to Warrior, at that.
did I mention that Dark Knight had its identity taken away and never given back?, replaced with a boring, dull, simple, inferior WAR clone.

2 / this is what people that used to love Dark Knight have already been doing. other threads are filled with mixed posts of complaints, concepts, ideas, and suggestions.

3 / 3.x and 4.x Dark Knight are in simple words, superior in most aspects to the trash 5.x Dark Knight. especially in the fact that 5.x Dark Knight does not even have its own identity, compared to the other two, that felt a lot more like Dark Knight had its own identity. 3.x Dark Knight was at least actually fun to play, actually interesting, more complex than the other lesser versions, felt a lot more like the identity of Dark Knight than any other version, and its simple problems could have been fixed; but it just had to be destroyed and ruined instead, into a mere inferior WAR clone, with serious issues that were never fixed, like Living Dead and Blood Weapon, because that is apparently(sarcasm) a "fixed" Dark Knight.

4 / I like the Dark, I like the night, and I hate light, as all light ever does is hurt me. Dark Knight's darkness theme was, I naively hoped, going to be the kind of dark and darkness trope that I fairly like representing myself as, in high fantasy and fantasy settings. (if 6.x does not improve Dark Knight, I have a Reaper ready to replace Dark Knight, and that makes me sad.)
I first got interested in Dark Knight because I hate the WoL, I am against Light supremacy BullSchitt, I had already thought that Hydaelyn was evil since the start of post-ARR(V2.1), the WoL gets on my nerves and is just "Warrior, Pawn of The Light", and before I found out the hard way what Dark Knight in-game "actually" is, to my years later still utter disappointment,(Lv50 quest "Our Answer", my #1 most hated part of Dark Knight story) I had thought that Dark Knight would be my chance to forsake the light and ditch what I see as the fairly stupid "nameless / voiceless PosterBoard hero Warrior of Light" identity.
I never signed up to be, or had any interest in being, the Shardbert WoL. if the player is just going to be him, playing his story, why do we even have character creation? the player never gets to be their character, just the Shardbert WoL, but we can irrelevantly change his gender, race, and face into what ever we want.

but FFXIV's rotten story is a different subject, it is just what made me interested in Dark Knight, as I had originally thought that the Dark Knight would actually be what its lore and story falsely portrayed the Dark Knight to be.