Dark Knight

[Exstal]

Sorry, I wasn't able to read the rest of the thread, but the way I understood from the whole "No base class involved" part of the info, I thought it was because it'll branch off of a current class, like off of Marauder or Gladiator until lv.30, just like how Scholar and Summoner branched from Arcanist. So a number of us would be able to have a lv.50 DRK if most of us already have lv.50 Paladin/Warrior.

It can be a play of words or literally what they state, but I it's only speculation.

No base class means you start a levl 1 Dark Knight.

Scholar and Summoner's base class is Arcanist.

[Intaki]

Making a new class (See: selling point of the expansion) require leveling an entirely different class all the way to 50/55 would be a terrible business decision.

[Katsushiro]

Just confirmed in livestream to be a tank.

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. NO!!!! DX

[Danbo05]

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. NO!!!! DX

[RyuuSkyez]

I honestly think its a good decision to make dark knight a tanking class. I really don't mind, I enjoy tanking with my paladin and will enjoy tanking also with my dark knight when it comes out. As far as DPS classes goes im happy with ninja that's coming out, and perhaps even gunner later on.

[HeroSamson]

When I first played dark knight in FFXI I thought I could tank also due to the previous final fantasy games and found out FFXI defense was weak as butter im glad Dark knight is tank here now I will go into beast mode.