Dark Knight

[Shikiseki]

Aw, I was hoping for Templar to become the 3rd tank... but DRK will do just fine, being a hybrid mage tank

[winxbloom61]

Aw, I was hoping for Templar to become the 3rd tank... but DRK will do just fine, being a hybrid mage tank

are there any templars in any final fantasy i mean i know theres been temples but i dont remember any jobs being templer

[Viridiana]

are there any templars in any final fantasy i mean i know theres been temples but i dont remember any jobs being templer

Pretty much just from the Tactics series.

[Danbo05]

Pretty much just from the Tactics series.

And Bravely Default.

[winxbloom61]

Pretty much just from the Tactics series.

oh i see i forgot all about tactics thank you for reminding me

[Nel_Celestine]

All these folks upset that its a tank...

The original Drk in Final Fantasy was a tank.

Many MMO have drain/endrain tanks, Lineage II's best tank was basically a Dark Knight. I'm fully confident they will make drk work just fine.

Final Fantasy IV

FF4 PSP Cecil Darkness

Darkness, also known as Dark or Dark Wave, is used by Dark Knight Cecil. Darkness has a Charge Time of 2. It deals non-elemental damage to all enemies by consuming his HP, but flan-type monsters are immune to it. If Cecil uses it too much he can KO himself when low on HP. This command was removed from the North American SNES version but during Cecil's encounter with his Dark Knight copy during his Paladin trial, the copy still uses this move.

In the remake of Final Fantasy IV for DS and iOS, Darkness is a completely different ability that empowers physical attacks at the cost of the user's HP.

Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII

Zack can use Darkness by equipping the Darkness Materia. By sacrificing 12.5% of his HP, the player may damage all enemies within a radius around Zack, ignoring vitality. The ability costs no AP to use. The Darkness Materia is obtained as a reward for missions 4-4-2 and 8-4-6, and is dropped by Demon and Horned Devil, and stolen from Land Malboro.

Even more examples

[Hillo]

Doesn't mean Cecil isn't a tank. He has the option of sacrificing HP, but as a character, he was still tanky. And yes, people have argued Kain was tanky too, but that doesn't mean they have to ignore that vision for Cecil. I'd say he worked as either a DPS OR a tank. SE just went with the latter.

On a slightly unrelated note, I think it would be cool if DRG was a bit more tanky. Oh well.

[Nel_Celestine]

Doesn't mean Cecil isn't a tank. He has the option of sacrificing HP, but as a character, he was still tanky. And yes, people have argued Kain was tanky too, but that doesn't mean they have to ignore that vision for Cecil. I'd say he worked as either a DPS OR a tank. SE just went with the latter.

On a slightly unrelated note, I think it would be cool if DRG was a bit more tanky. Oh well.

Please tell me what raid group in their right mind will take a tank into the raid that will use it's own HP to deal damage?

[Hillo]

Please tell me what raid group in their right mind will take a tank into the raid that will use it's own HP to deal damage?

I'm saying DRK has been a capable "tank" in the past. HP sacrifice is secondary to this, I'm sure they can rework it in another way if they really needed to.

[Nel_Celestine]

I'm saying DRK has been a capable "tank" in the past. HP sacrifice is secondary to this, I'm sure they can rework it in another way if they really needed to.

sacrificing it's HP is the defining motif of a dark knight.