Quote Originally Posted by Firon View Post
Drks are very tanky in offline games, when i use the word tanky i mean a class that can take hits and not die which both pld and dark can do. Only advantage pld had that it could use Cover. In FF 11 darks was very squishy.
Is this not simply because of their armour class?
Healing in offline games and healing online are totally different things.

Whilst offline you could simply mitigate the health lost from abilities such as Darkness, online it'll just cause hate and MP issues (this is assuming that a Dark Knight has abilities in place to take hate to begin with).

The main feature (harming itself to inflict higher damage) of a Dark Knight is suited towards damage dealing and directly conflicts with anything related to tanking.

I'm not saying it can't tank, I'm sure many have done it before. What I am saying is that on the list of jobs with unique mechanics, Dark Knight's cliché isn't near the top of the list like it is with damage dealing.