death knight???

[Deedsie]

Dark Knight will most likely come off of MRD, like WAR does

Highly doubtful. Marauder doesn't use great swords. It will require a new class.

[EmeraldHill]

good to know its possible

[Ri_ri]

Highly doubtful. Marauder doesn't use great swords. It will require a new class.

Considering how Dragoons are similar to Kain (the armor and the unsheated weapon pose), I think Dark Knights could be based off Cecil, who used sword and shield in FFIV.

[Grey_Cain]

It could easily go either way. I'd honestly only be surprised if a new class showed up with DRK as its job.

Yes, Dark Knight has typically been a one-hand sword and shield user in almost every FF they appear in.
But, there are a lot of throwbacks to FFXI in the game, so they could very well make it a 2-hander again.

However, I think the plan for second jobs will be toward making the two jobs in opposition, or giving a different role. This favors Gladiator as it gives them a plausible role change to DPS. Marauder/WAR, on the other hand, is already too close to DPS in implementation. It wouldn't be very interesting to do the same thing but with more damage and less damage mitigation. I'd expect Marauder's second job to be DPS in a different way, possibly as either a pet class with Beastmaster or off-caster with Geomancer.

[Evokerz]

Gladiator: Paladin or Dark Knight

Marauder: Warrior or Berserker/viking

[EmeraldHill]

i hope it can use 2 hand swords

[Zezil]

dark knight should be two hand sword 'A'r so old class no thank give me new class 'A'

[Johnist]

If any CLASS Becomes a DARK KNIGHT, it wouldn't be Marauder, but Gladiator. It would be a DD Gladiator Job... Dark Knights use SWORDS AND SHIELDS, not Axes.

[Conradus]

Yeah I'm not sure how they will implement dark knight if it uses a scythe. It would have to be a new base job that branches into other things. Or they could make it so you can't equip the Scythe until you've equiped the sole stone for a darknight and still base it off warrior.

Or they could make it so Warrior's can use 2h axes and Scythes but allt he scythes will have DPS stats.

Obviously, if DRK is going to use a Scythe, the base class will need to be BTN.

[Conradus]

If any CLASS Becomes a DARK KNIGHT, it wouldn't be Marauder, but Gladiator. It would be a DD Gladiator Job... Dark Knights use SWORDS AND SHIELDS, not Axes.

DRK in FFXI did not use shield at all. He *could* use axes and great axes, although his rating in those was low enough that you generally wanted to stick to scythes and great swords. His rating in single-handed swords (the type GLD uses) was no better than that for axes and great axes (B- for all three).