Dark Knight DD or Tank

[Reika]

Damage Dealer, all the way.

When I started FFXI, my first ever MMO, the only job I wanted to play was DRK. I am eagerly looking forward to a Dark Knight in 14.

FFXIV gave me the opportunity to be a Lalacorn, now I want to be a tiny, spiky ball of incredibly adorable death and dismemberment!

Edit: Please don't be stingy with the magic spells for drks!

Lala DRKS could bring about MOE Death as well.

When you say DRK tanked in XI that was /nin and not FTW.. no DRK/DD tanked anything challenge worthy in XI. I also differentiate between being "able" to do something and doing something because it's a "winning" strategy. If you sacrifice a ton of STR and DEF to ATT abilities/gear to tank on DRK that's just a D rate tank.

1)Meaningful Situational: PLD+/- NIN(AoE=X), MNK(counter/weaker mob, salvage, non AOE)
2) Weaker mob/mostly situational: War, SAM/Seigan, DD/nin (ie: DRK)
3)Very situational/solo/ messing around: Rdm/nin, Smn/Bst pets

I think FF series wise GLD > pld+Drk would make the most sense since they are basically inverses, (equip sword> switch Scythe/GS @job change) You'd need a significant DPS increase to make this work, and XIV GLD abilities wouldn't make sense on DRK, but would have good survive-ability.

Ability wise MRD> AXE would make sense for DRK to use as well, plus the abilities would match up better with DD and could still wear heavy armor. So I think for XIV MRD> DRK would make the most sense.

Would be silly to try to tank as DRK/NIN, as you would not have provoke and as said nin was changed to lose agro with utsuemi lol. Tanked as DRK/WAR for the obvious reasons.

MRD would also be a bad choice as MRD is the real offense/defense class, that doesnt really excel in both. And it would give DRK way too much HP for 'squishy DD', would just end up Dark Warrior.

The only real good choice for DRK DD is new class, with DRK oriented skills/spells, and a nice greatsword to equip to it.

But of course they have mentioned the whole one class branching to more than one job thing. Maybe one day drk could come off of GLD, MRD, or Newclass.