Dark Knight

[Deusteele]

DRK might function similar to Guardian Druid on WoW. Massive Health pool, Very High Dodge, but has a way to convert a resource into a scalable self heal. That latter part is what WAR lacked during the launch of 2.0. They may implement a damage taken pool for DRK that accumulates during the fight.

[Shurrikhan]

If anything it looks like a heavier, more "do your best" and take hits in the face, passive mitigation tank (or at most evasive mitigation through spells/seals) than anything physically nimble... Its heavy armor and likely enlarged health pool seems to make it ideal as a dual-option heavy dps / tank that, when in the dps role, can easily swap into off-tanking and can use increased vitality for larger nukes (though at cost of consistent dps compared to going full strength)... I don't exactly have faith in the team's ability to make something interesting of a self-sacrificial mechanic in a tank either, though I think it's possible in other hands. Of course, just as much as none of this is perfectly set in stone yet, I really doubt we have a voice in the matter.

:: just a side-note, from what little we have here, the impression I get is that of a 2h Frost tank, back when that was a thing. Huge armor, decent enough health, acclimating and sapping defense, good parry and magic defense, and a bit of burst mitigation/absorption through spells.

[Deedsie]

I'm an XI vet, stopped playing for a while and fairly recently started again. Dark Knight is my #2 job behind Red Mage. I don't care if it's going to fill the tank slot, I'm going to play Dark Knight here anyway. Could be interesting.

[Noll]

I'm actually very happy with DRK being a tank. And I hope they will make it interesting enough. I'm not sure I will play one, cause my main is healer anyway, and for secondary tanking I like the Paladin, but I will try one for sure, after I level to 60 my main job

[Erepio]

ppl should srsly stop going "Hey Dark Knight is a tank" and start going "Hey that tank is a Dark Knight"

if they implement the dark knight and it feels/plays like one then thats enough.. u shouldnt play a job for its role anyway, u should play it cuse of the job itself

[Warlyx]

Someone let the angry kid out...

It's a game man, everyone have their own opinion and can state it, but your reaction is really childish, chill out and get a life.

he is mad....only 3 posts...but full of rageeeeeeeee on capslock of course

Drk are tanks for 1 reason :

WE NEED MORE TANKS , and DRK are perfect for that because 2h sword (wannabe cloud) , darkness magic....lawl dark magic im badass roaarrr

i was scared of the amount of NIN....but im sure DRK Are going to be EVERYWHERE....feel sorry for REAL tanks....

[Shori]

Incase i missed it, is drk a cross between gladiator and dragoon, or gladiator and black mage?

[Argarah]

also curious on the no base class
wonder if SE will tear down the whole class-job concept

How can they? The whole class system is too ingrained into the lore. So why break with what you have previously establish. Jobs are a specialization of classes. Introduce a class or split it off of another, no exception.

[Argarah]

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.

[Darkdrover]

Well, I know of a way they could fix it, but it would be ripping off another very popular game. Give us talent trees. There. I said it. Give WAR the chance to Tank OR specialize in DD. PLD gets to tank, heal or dps, SCH gets to heal or DPS, it would give the classes a lot more flexibility PLUS it would cut down on the complaints that the classes are pigeon holed into set roles. Yes, they are iconic, and that works fine in a single player RPG, but with a MMO, you need flexability. We have 2 tanks, 2 heals, and about to have 6 DPS. I would rather have more options than additional classes at this point in the game, just my opinion...