What do you guys think about Dark Knight?

[Dwill]

If its implemented, I hope its a tank. There are just too few iconic FF jobs that make sense as a tank, and Dark Knight is one of them.
There's tons of other iconic jobs that make sense as DPS.

Dark Knight is much more of a DPS than a tank though, by Final Fantasy standard. If it is ever implemented, my guess is that it would be a DPS and not before 4.0.

[Tharian]

If its implemented, I hope its a tank. There are just too few iconic FF jobs that make sense as a tank, and Dark Knight is one of them.
There's tons of other iconic jobs that make sense as DPS.

There are plenty of viable Tank jobs in Final Fantasy history:

Blue Mage can double as a tank with certain spells
Samurai has been a tank in some cases
In Final Fantasy XI you also had the Rune Fencer that served as a Tank
Red Mage could also be a feasible tank

and that isn't even getting into the Guest Jobs that are present in Final Fantasy Tactics that could serve as Tanks:
Holy Knight is essentially Paladin
Divine Knight (an even more advanced version of Paladin)
Holy Swordsmen (kind of a combination of Paladin and Rune Fencer)
Soldier (yeah that was actually Cloud Strife)
Ark Knight

Yeah there are just so many possible places to draw tank classes from from within Final Fantasy history. We really don't need to mutilate the Dark Knight class in order to make it a Tank.

[Black91CRX]

Better come with a Bat-mobile mount hue hue

[JaydeDancer]

I would play DRK, and my husband would play DRK and never play anything else again. It was his fav job in XI. And he was very good at it.

[Ozaro]

I don't get why so many people love it. There are far more iconic FF jobs that could be implemented.

Then by all means start a new thread.

[LionKing]

Followed by your logic, " classified as sword but looks like dagger", we have, if Darknight 's weapon truly is a scythe just for argument sake, a war scythe that being classified as Scythe but looks like a BTN scythe is an ok??? Of course, it is because the logic that one weapon class was taken by one job, thus the jobs come later can not wield the same weapon because it was taken is ridiculous as it sounds.

[Exstal]

No, you misunderstand. Those weapons were called daggers, but were swords. That's why Gladiator could use them. They changed the animation and name of the weapon so that it was swords only(this is where your thinking comes in).

Scythes, only being in a single game of the FF series, is already in use by a class that it makes the most sense for. Maybe my earlier choice of words was a little out of place, however scythes are weapons are still ridiculous looking and it would be a crying shame if that's the weapon they choose. Although, DRK would use either 2 handed sword, or 1 handed sword with no shield (leaning more towards the two hand).

This is a war scythe, if you didn't already look it up. Looks more like a spear than a scythe, don't you think?

[LionKing]

When I think of Scythe, I mean it as the Deathscythe as in Shinigami's weapon looks. If it is the look like you presented, I would say no as well. Look ugly, way way ugly....

[Exstal]

I don't think Dark Knight should use the Reaper's weapon either. It looks stupid and is not a staple of the class. Let's take a look at the older weapon types;

Final Fantasy II - Axes, Swords, and Spears (highest proficiency)
Final Fantasy III - Daggers, Swords, and "dark swords" (which were just katana)
Final Fantasy IV - Swords
Final Fantasy X-2 - Zweihander
Final Fantasy XI - Scythe, Zweihander, Battleaxe, Axe, Sword
Final Fantasy Tactics - Sword
Bravely Default - Swords, Katana

Common theme being swords. I see it thrown around here a lot that Naoki doesn't want this to be like FFXI, so let's hope they don't bring in the scythe to appease FFXI players.

[Axeus]

Final Fantasy IV - Swords

Common theme being swords. I see it thrown around here a lot that Naoki doesn't want this to be like FFXI, so let's hope they don't bring in the scythe to appease FFXI players.

To add on in FFVI Cecil used a two handed sword and shield, and to be fair, I can't decide what is a better fit IF they add Berserker then would they be better used in two handed swords? Or would DRK? Yet again I still DEEPLY hate the idea of split jobs from the same class but just seems natural since a 2h Axe is already taken. Unless they did something absolutely out of this world with dual two handed swords. But thats another question down the line. As I see it DRK has always in my mind be straight up 2h Sword (let us not mention Cecil in FFVI and in Dissidia uses two completely different weapon types in DRK form) which screams damage and basically being the end all be all powerhouse.

Also as an addition didn't in tactics DRK use magic swords? Then maybe fell blades or something of the like would be ok too...