Dark Knight Confirmed

[Zumi]

Why would a Japanese dev name those set of folders in English when almost everything else there is in Japanese? Sounds like it's done on purpose and not by accident.

It was sokens laptop a lot of his files he named in english.

[Lufir]

I'm confused on the confirmed stuff. So Dark Knight is confirmed? Healer and tank jobs are just expansion speculation?

[Zyrusticae]

Soken actually has a pretty good working knowledge of English, as he demonstrated during the music panel.

But yeah, I don't believe for a second that that wasn't intentional.

[Zanmato]

To be fair about the Samurai speculation, they have been talking about Samurais in more than 1 occasion. For example, during the Lore segment, they, out of nowhere, mention Banri Oda and his descendant Nobunaga Oda, who was... a Samurai.
They don't mention Samurai, but they absolutely had the plans to hint to it, or else they would not have the picture of Nobunaga Oda. So, this was planned.

Soken's folder named Samura(i?) may be a coincidence, or not. However the fact that they have been hinting at it is definitely something to take into consideration. Keep your eyes and ears open tomorrow, it seems likely that they will drop something else...

...like THAL'S BLOODY BALLS!

Fernehalwes (Koji Fox) is fucking awesome. Huge fan of the guy. Really cool guy.

[KuroganeAre]

JIMP, SAMURAI AND DARK KNIGHT, OMFG!!!!

Fan Fest is too much on my heart and Vegas is TOO much on my tummy.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

My prediction is that DRK will use an existing class: GLA. If I'm wrong, then I imagine their weapon being similar to swords, but not being swords. FF3 and FF4 and DRK exclusive weapons.

[Toodles]

Dark Knight needs to be a DPS from Marauder.

[Danbo05]

Dark Knight needs to be a DPS from Marauder.

DK has been more popular as sword wielders than ax wielders, and always has been. Sure there's a selected few out there that prefer an ax wielding DK, but there's a greater number that prefer the classic sword wielding DK. If this wasn't the case, DK would've been an ax wielder in more games.

[silentwindfr]

err, you know it's greatly possible the two jobs, SAM and DRK will come from the same new class.... two hand sword user.

[Ultimatecalibur]

err, you know it's greatly possible the two jobs, SAM and DRK will come from the same new class.... two hand sword user.

That is one of the 3 possibilities I'm seeing, the others being melee DPS alternatives for Gladiator(most likely possibility) and Marauder(least likely possibility).