Dark Knight

[Seth_Orwell]

Ummm... Just a thought, people.

This is Final Fantasy XIV, not Final Fantasy XI.
Different games, different roles for some jobs.

Did people complain when the (al)chemist, pure buffer/debuffer in FFV, became a pure healer in FFT, got mixed with the thief in FFX (Rikku), and is now just a discipline of the hand in FFXIV?
Nope. Because that's how Final Fantasy works.
Get over it.

[Krr]

DRK being a tank was one of the best moves they could've done. We already have far more melee DPS than the average raid has melee DPS slots to a point where their balance is a nightmare, and not enough variety for tank players.

[Raige]

Years ago going into XI and seeing that Dark Knight was a DPS, made me upset because all other MMOs I have played had the DRK as a Tank. So, XI was the odd ball on this one. Yoshi P. and his team have been doing a good job thus far. I think they've earned some measure of trust that they will make good quality work of an extremely loved job.

[EdwinLi]

They'll probably make the Gunblade Job a Tank Job as well because of how Garleans with Gunblades always seem to wear Tankish Armor

[MrLeonheart]

The way I see it, if I'm the huge hulking dude with a greatsword that's also dripping with dark energies or whatever, I'm guessing most things will see me as the biggest threat anyway. Might as well revel in it.

[Rhaja]

I kinda wanted Dark Knight as a DPS with HP being it's main resource, but holy **** after seeing that armor I don't care. Sorry WAR, its been fun, but your getting benched in the expac.

[Tadacho]

Dark Knight is different in every title.

From the weapon it uses to its skills, abilities, lore and job role (and let's be honest, excluding FFXI, every job (except healers) in every game is an auto-attack DPS anyway, including Paladin). So let's stop arguing whether DRK is a tank or a dps, because in this game it has been decided it is a tank, and in this game, that is all that matters.

[Hollow_Tears]

I was disappointed at first that dark knight was a tank but after releasing said disappointment in kickboxing class I no longer care since what's done is done, now I would like to know has there been other hints that they will have more DD jobs in the expansion, because if they just release 2 jobs the DRK tank and healer job whatever that may be it'll be sad that's all SE could add in.

[Mickk]

I just read 35 pages of ; ;

I was not expecting Drk to be a tank... and was only a little disappointed because I wanted to switch from tank main and be a lazy DPS for Drk Drk totally fits as a tank though, and I'm looking forward to it. Guess my WAR will switch for DRK, and my MNK will switch for NIN.

The big thing that I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned yet is about the no base class... I'm really hoping I'm wrong here, but this could very well mean that they are adding new soul crystals to existing classes. It would make sense for a MRD to Equip a GS and a DRK soulcrystal... I just hope I'm wrong because I really don't want to be a lvl 50 DRK as soon as the expansion releases.

As for the QQ from the "it ruins the class" crowd, FFXI ruined DRK. Making it a tank with a greatsword is bringing it back to glory. I for one, can't F*kin wait!

[NeverYolo]

This tank better spam Drain / Drainga / DrainII and all sorts of TP skills that rip health away from the enemies and transfer it to him.
Self healing tanks rock. Blood Death Knight FTW.