Dark Knight Megathread

[Rithy255]

DRK needs a rework from the ground up its shameful how even the new jobs from shb and ew are better and have more thought for levels they don't even start with. Meanwhile, DRK is a HW job but it keeps getting gutted over and over again without care for the consequences. Besides SCH and AST I think its the only job that get gradually worse every expansion.

I think it's a pattern with tanks/healers in particular, obviously not every tank has been getting worse every expansion (I'd argue the recent pld changes were overall worse despite making the job less clunky and how healer design works currently actually effects tanks needing to use defensives or utility properly), The design of anything that isn't a DPS at this point feels watered down and made sure that anyone can just pick up the roles at a basic level.... but this has been shown not to really increase play rate just increase complaints.

Dark Knight clearly is the weakest in tank design imo... well I'd argue warrior is also for completely different reasons, but tanks are really not in a great spot as a whole... need I even talk about healer design?

But I can agree if any tank deserves a rework, Dark Knight is it, but I really hope they actually look into the Point of tanking as a whole, as the entire role is just boring defensive DPS at this point.

[Kreyd]

The design of anything that isn't a DPS at this point feels watered down and made sure that anyone can just pick up the roles at a basic level.... but this has been shown not to really increase play rate just increase complaints.

This tbh.

No Idea how Dawntrail will impact Tanks (and also Healers) but if this continues I really hope that 8.0 will just release 1 Range Job and focus on Tank (and Healer) reworks, instead of two new Jobs.