New Dark Knight Tank

[Moqi]

Dark Knight is a DPS. There are plenty of established tank jobs in the franchise to pick from if they want to add another one.

[Nyghtmarerobu]

Just to throw around as a thought, while dark Knight got alot of attention in 11, It's been an FF staple since as early as Final Fantasy 2 (Leon), and Most Notable Dark Knight from 4, Cecil. They have always used a sword and shield in the olden days, and as it stands the current sword/shield combo is a tank, so its a very real possibility Dark Knight could become a tank class. 11 made dark Knights into a dps class, so please don't solidify them into it. they "could" very easily swing both ways, and personally I'd love it if they made Dark Knight a Pure "Blood/Lifesteal" tank. Much more lifesteal abilitys than the current warrior layout.

On an addendum to this post, why not Rune Fencer? When can I have a more Magic Defence Tank for content that does purely magic damage (Stares at Ramuh).

[Reynhart]

They have always used a sword and shield in the olden days, and as it stands the current sword/shield combo is a tank, so its a very real possibility Dark Knight could become a tank class.

Sword & Shield is not "a tank", it's Gladiator's arm.
The only thing you could say is that its a very real possibility that Dark Knight could evolve from Gladiator.
And it'd be useless to give another Tank job to Gladiator that would have 15 skills shared with PLD.

[Serephine]

Honestly, I'd be extremely upset if they introduced Drk as a tank, it's always pretty much been a DPS class.

But I am pretty excited to look badass with a scythe!! Hell yeah!







I really like scythes >.<

[Alistaire]

From what I remember of Dark Knights in XI, they primarily focused on 'drains' and 'absorbs'

Those were the bad DRKs.

But the idea's sound; they could certainly make a drain-oriented tank here.

Could also do a variation of what XI had; give them a trait that makes them uninterruptable for a short time after a parry, like PLD had with shield blocks. Give them Lancer secondaries and then you could even have times the tank would use BfB if they had a Dread Spikes ability. (short term "shield" where damage received gets drained 100% to a max amount, effectively negating all physical damage for a short time)

But yeah, too many DRK dps fans would rage.

[Nicobo]

Someone said DRK was tank in IX?? If so I believe RDM was a better TANK. ^^;

[Exstal]

Dark Knight is a DPS. There are plenty of established tank jobs in the franchise to pick from if they want to add another one.

"Plenty"

There's like 2 more possibilities. Templar and Viking (which is what Warrior seems to be).

[Alistaire]

Someone said DRK was tank in IX?? If so I believe RDM was a better TANK. ^^;

There was a phase where drk/nin or nin/drk tanked stuff.

[Reynhart]

But I am pretty excited to look badass with a scythe!! Hell yeah!

Scythes only existed in FFXI, so don't get your hopes too high.

But with the flashy animation, it'd look really cool, yes

[Giantbane]

"Plenty"

There's like 2 more possibilities. Templar and Viking (which is what Warrior seems to be).

Samurai

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