Knight: Samurai and Dark Knight Proposal

[MartaDemireux]

The reason I went with 太刀士 (Tachishi) is because 太刀 (tachi) literally translates to great sword (synonymous with long sword in English). The tachi sword style preceded the development of katanas as well which I thought would be a nice work-in for leading to the Samurai job. I would have used 両手剣士 (double-handed sword user) but that would break the naming convention set in place of using only 3 kanji. In the class description their weapon type could be clarified to 両手剣 (double-handed sword) to include all manner of large swords. They do this with Gladiator already. Gladiator is 剣術士 which means "Sword skill user" but they clarify in the description that it uses 片手剣 (single-handed sword). As far as PLD is concerned: This link shows that they do use ナイト for it.　FFXI and FFXIV are both examples of using ナイト over パラディン. I think only FFTA, FFTA2 and FFIV made use of パラディン.

I think Squire is too weak of a name and in the series the Squire was bare-bones. Argath is the only Squire to have any Break abilities and they were Rend Helm and Rend Armor. Now when you look at Knight, they had all of them and then some. Knight is also a class I could see people wanting to play based on the name over Squire as well. I envision the story of Dark Knight being one to collude and corrupt the Knight for a literal name tie-in. As far as giving Samurai access to Sentinel it's more of an homage to Auron. Sentinel first came into the series with FFX in Auron's path which makes the first use of it belonging to a Samurai/Knight. I do agree with you on your opinion for cross-class abilities but I had to make this exception. The same goes for Shadow Flare and the DRK. While the DRK will most likely never use it due to its cast time, I just had to include it for the sake of FF history.

Good catch with Life Surge, I'll make sure they can't be stacked.