Dark Knight

[WellFooled]

A class that has for the longest time been an offensive powerhouse that uses its own HP to augment its offensive powers has been relegated to the role of tank, a role that really shouldnt be using its own HP to augment its offensive powers.

Yeah, i would say that it has been butchered quite thoroughly. :P

I can defiantly see where you're coming from, particularly since DRK's last MMO outing was as a damage dealer.

However, my view of it is like this: Dark Knight, like all Final Fantasy classes, is ever changing. In FFII it had high intelligence, stamina, HP, and a proficiently with lots of weapons (like a melee black magic user), FFIII had it using white magic (of all things!), FFIV had it being a damage dealer (but he only used swords and shields), in FFX-2 it was a damage dealer with debuffs (and protection against being debuffed).

From its history Dark Knight has been almost a little bit of everything, but often as players we're attracted to our favorite version of it, which is great, but that doesn't mean its the only version.