Dark Knight

[Sarynth]

Gotta love life sometimes... I go to re enlist, SE announces expansion goodness abouf the time i should be getting in basic. Oh irony lol
Anyways on topic: I vaguely recall it being said that the exapnsion would bring a tank, healer, ranged dealer and heavy dd (if someone had a link that'd be awesome, I'm at wotk atm) my predictions for new jobs are;
Dark knight- tank
Samurai - heavy dd
Ranger - ranged dd
And idk about what the healer will be.

[DrekeLamorte]

Dark knight- tank
Samurai - heavy dd
Ranger - ranged dd
And idk about what the healer will be.

Healer Job will be Engineer based on Muskateer class, the ranged class you are hoping is ranger.

I'll bet on it.

[RyujinUzikin]

There goes my dream of being a Drk again.

Oh well...

[Hollow_Tears]

I was hoping DRK would have been a DD but oh well just another job I will level and slowly gear but not play beyond doing stuff in open world.

[ExiaQuanta]

I lol i remember in FFX-2, all i did was DRK all the way through the game. Good HP pool and did good dmg lol

a bit surprise seeing it as a tank. was kinda hoping for Scythe DPS user. But Oh well. Keep going SE!

[Hammerfist]

Wow, the Dark Knight as a tank who uses 2-handed swords was the job I was hoping to see the most and they delivered it! I'm so happy that they made this choice, I almost can't believe it xD

Btw Dark Knight was really the best option as a classic tank job: as a DPS it would have been a complete waste, especially since there are already too many DPS jobs (even more if you also consider rogue/ninja and a future gunner class).

[CramerGamer]

The comment about it being a magic/parry/dodge tank worries me. Because that's what they tried to do with Rune Fencer in XI and they failed horribly because it struggles to survive physical based damage and the % reduction of Paladin's cooldowns/shields just totally outclass its resistance to magic damage. It could turn into 2.0 Warrior all over again if they don't balance it properly (Being different does not make you better, or even preferable as a niche case). Nobody is going to care if you're only taking like 1/3 of the magical damage from Megaflare or whatever if Ravensbeak is doing 2/3 more (Than a standard tank). Most of the attacks in this game that are actually expected to kill tanks are large or continuous physical hits (Death Sentence, Ravensbeak, Bahamut's Claws, Mountain Buster, Hood Swing, Double Wicked Wheel). Being resistant to magic damage more than physical damage doesn't help you survive any of that. The only thing it does help you with are reduce the damage to things like Earthen Heart, Mega Flare, Avatar Lasers/Mines in T8...none of which is really expected to kill the tank with the exception of some unfortunate mine juggling in T8.

[Gramul]

No base class? Could we finally get rid of the others then?

Shame about awkwardly shoving everything into the 3 role system. But great swords are a tempting offer.

[CramerGamer]

No base class? Could we finally get rid of the others then?

Makes what they did with Summoner and Scholar just appear awkward and forced at this point since it looks like they're going to just do away with the diverging class thing altogether at this point.

no Scythe weapon? maybe will a add the scythe.

I love XI, but Dark Knights have always traditionally been sword users. Either one-handers in IV or great swords in X-2 or XI. Yoshi-P even said a long time ago that he didn't understand why they would use Scythes.

[Gramul]

Makes what they did with Summoner and Scholar just appear awkward and forced

Yes, It was.