Dark Knight

[Nielk]

lol hate to be that guy who makes a snarky comment but, why couldn't NIN be a tank again? Making DRK a tank is just weird, I guess the gun class they reveal is going to end up being a healer lol.

Ninja Should of been Cross Class like smn / SCH , Thf as the Dps , and Nin as the Tank Class i'm sorry i really believe they didn't think this 1 through or just choose to personal preference instead of just trying to do vote system on what best for the game Really don't want Realm Reborn to be Like 1.0 where it died and they had to scrap everything =/ just 1 huge revamp change Nin to tank and DRK to Dps would fix everything

[Exstal]

lol hate to be that guy who makes a snarky comment but, why couldn't NIN be a tank again?

I don't want to be that guy, but are you lacking brain cells? In a single game out of 30+ has Ninja be able even be close to a tank. If you didn't play FFXI, like many people didn't, you'd think anyone who says Ninja should be a tank has IQ less than a chimpanzee's.

[Zeromes]

I played FFXI, but i think my DRK was like.. level 30.. maybe 33, and that was when cap was at 75. But ive played a lot of other mmos between now and then, and ive grown to really love 2 handed sword dps ect, and was really waiting for this class. My hearts a little broken that its not a dps class, throughout DRK history in any FF its always sacrificed HP to go ham, its never been a protector or a martyr of any sorts, and i really see that being a tank role, the protector... i hope some of you guys can read this and agree with me it really shouldnt be a tank role, buuuut its just my little ol opinion.

Heres a link to what someone wrote on a wiki, and did a pretty good job describing DRK in a nutshell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_F...bs#Dark_Knight

[Estevo]

What bothers me the most, is not the fact it's a Tank but their is no base class. I get it Yoshi P, you didn't like the classes, and I know based on what you were given (FFXIV 1.0), didn't give you much room to change it, but you already established a lore, plus you have a lot of pre-existing clases that could diverge into another job just like you have established with Arcanist. Why are we changing that. I just don't get it.

Well the dark knight is new, it doesn't need a class system that doesn't make the gameplay any more fun. Also it would be quite logical story-wise if the jobs became more efficient battle styles than the classes and with more research being done on them, the guilds were to become job guilds, like instead of a lancer guild, it would be a dragoon guild!

I would be a very happy panda if something like that were to happen, I mean do you like the classes? Cuz I sure don't... BESIDES ARCANIST, gotta love carbuncle, otherwise no.

[Purrfectstorm]

I was looking forward to playing a SAM tank but may just go DRK if SAM is a DPS. I'm glad it's a tank, it seems cool, might get more people to tank also. I just hope all the tank jobs have their own identity. Like WAR has self-heals. If they just give DRK an absorb that basically works like Bloodbath or a spell that does the same thing as Thrill of Battle, that'll be pretty unexciting.

[silentwindfr]

Ninja Should of been Cross Class like smn / SCH , Thf as the Dps , and Nin as the Tank Class i'm sorry i really believe they didn't think this 1 through or just choose to personal preference instead of just trying to do vote system on what best for the game Really don't want Realm Reborn to be Like 1.0 where it died and they had to scrap everything =/ just 1 huge revamp change Nin to tank and DRK to Dps would fix everything

seriously... ninja...tank? *sighs* since when a spy, assassin and sneaky can fit in the shoes of a tank... and i prefer not begin with why the drk must'nt be a dps... if you don't understand this i can't help you.

[jlewiss]

"uh ffxiv is it's own game , they can make summoners whatever they want they don't have to follow what previous games did, who cares that it's a dot class now"
"DARK KNIGHT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A DPS WHY CHANGE THIS OMG"
lol

[Arkanethered]

Drk doesn't need a guild if it does not have a class.. so it's avoiding having to insert lore where there wasn't before and create disconformity within the storyline... I bet you find some stoic drk out in a remote area who teaches you how to delve the depths of your hate or some such... very ffxi Zeid-like

[TThibi]

Everyone needs to calm down SE did not say DRK would be just like it was in FFXI, it is very much viable as a tank option, and that job will not see the world we currently live and play in. The 3.0 team will not add on to the world currently as it exists but overwrite it entirely with a whole new job system and set of quests for those jobs.
The original classes will be reworked/renamed into jobs, Rogue and ninja will split to follow their individual destinies which was originally intended. For speculation sake lets rename/rework the classes; Conjurer >> Redmage/Fencer, Pugilist >> Boxer/Beastmaster(this makes sense if you've done the pugilist story line), Marauder >> Samurai, Arcanist >> Blue mage , Thaumaturge >> Geomancer, Archer >> Gunner/Ranger, Gladiator >> Dark Knight. Pure speculation but consider the classes removed as prerequisites and made into jobs available at level 1, where do they go? Also I still hope as many others do as well that SE will give us Dancer.

[Namasu]

If I can out-DPS 90% of the DPS I've met as a non-tanking warrior then I can do the same as a DRK. You FFXI rose-tinted goggles wearers are getting a bit too salty for my sodium intake.