Ishgardian classes

[Mirron]

Handful. They also use them in Airborne Brigade, and I vaguely recall one or two others. I wasn't meaning to imply that they are as prevalent as Greatswords, merely that it isn't exclusive to XI. It could entirely grow in the future, depends on what they feel like doing. But the biggest game they've ever used scythes is definitely XI. They seem to mostly use scythes as a way to keep them different from Paladins, but it's kind of silly.

Also, pretty sure that's Cecil from FFIV, not FFIII's Dark Knights.

[Ecks007]

Also, pretty sure that's Cecil from FFIV, not FFIII's Dark Knights.

Er, yeah. I get the numbers confused with that title.

I wonder if our Drk relic will be Deathbringer. It should be..

[AutumnsHollow]

A heal over time healer would be nice, and I think it would mesh well with scholar/white mage.

I think it would need the spell shell though, since if we have three healers to pick from it would always be white mage (enhanced protect), and scholar/new healer. That way if a group wanted to do a new healer/scholar combo, the scholar could use protect, and the new healer could use shell!

[Eraqus]

I like the idea of ffxiv to giv dark Knight 2 h swords. And honestly i want his counterpart with HOLY powers not paladin. Because paladin here its not at all the counterpart of drk since paladin dosent have any holymagic based spell. Pld its just defensive. We need HOLY KNIGHT or something like that to have the counterpart of drk. And i would love it xQ__

[MeteorMachinist]

From what I know, Dark Knight will be using greatswords. I actually like that, as well. It sounds interesting.

As for other classes, after thinking about stuff I've encountered while playing in the areas of Ishgard currently accessible, I'm very curious to see if Time Mage might fit as an Ishgardian job, based on their Astrologian/Astrologer for the base Class. There might be some precedent, if Ishgard will be receiving its own classes when it becomes accessible, like with Gridania, Limsa Lominsa, and Ul'dah.

I'd also love to see Samurai, especially since they've already added Ninja, which hopefully opens the way lore-wise for further classes and jobs such as that from the Far East. (That and some of the species in the expansion seem to have an Asian or even Japanese design feel to them.)

Additionally, I'm curious if Privateer is still slated, and if it will be added in Heavensward as well.

[Zephyr-Umbra]

Honestly i have to wonder how useful Dark knight will be as a tank, it's clear Yoshida wants classes to have more of a multi-function to them but so far we've not really seen this to be the case. Warrior certainly feels like a tank/dps but it's technically a tank for all intensive purposes, i just don't really see a reason for another tank as things stand. And i say this as someone who loves Dark Knight as a class in other FF games, i would hate to see them undervalued as tanks that aren't as great at tanking compared to Warriors and Paladins, but perhaps deal slightly more dps overall to make up for it.

I just keep asking myself what they would bring to the table, Ninja's are unique in the sense that they're able to engage in melee and ranged combat just fine. Perhaps if Dark knight's could be self sufficient in tanking by draining life from mobs to lessen the heals needed from healers, and also that life draining acting as an income for additional dps. Even then i'm still not convinced it'll be anything other than a flashy new suit of armour to prance around in. I wish SE had released Dark knight first instead of warrior, it would've been a much cooler dynamic with the whole 'Holy' and 'Dark' Tank theme, but we'll see how it works out.