Dark Knight Tank confirmed for 3.0

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Welcome our new tank role into the fold!














Mention that it will be a parry/dodge/magic tank.

[Delily]

I am really excited! I don't enjoy the tanking style of the warrior of the paladin, I've always enjoyed a mix of melee and offensive magic. Hopefully SE can pull off this "offensive magic tank" a lot better than Blizzard's death knights.

[FenreyVarnell]

Shut up and take (more of) my Money, Yoshi-P. This october has been amazing. 8D

[LygerZero]

No base class? o.O

[Shikiseki]

I was actually waiting for Templar as a magic focused Tank with but Dark Knight will do just fine.
There's a lot of potential in this class but I hope it won't end up like an 2.0 WAR because we know how that turned out.

Stepping into the arcane and dark magic, I can see his AoE hate attack cost HP like FFx-2 souleater and a lot of debuffing/draining. But I guess it's a bit too early to tell, considering this job has no base class at all.

[Ordoric]

i call runefencer

[SirTaint]

I couldn't be happier. Loved tanking on DRK in FFXI and was hoping hard to tank on DRK in FFXIV!!! Too bad its 6 months away.

[Einheri]

Super Excited. But now I have to choose between WAR and DRK. I'm so conflicted. Going to have to flip a coin before each encounter to play them both!

[Saigwa]

Goodbye paladins and warriors. Hello dark knight as 90% of the tanking population. . . Maybe I'm just a scrub tank, but I firmly believe it takes a particular mindset to be a good and respectable tank. With the popular and highly anticipated great sword wielding dark knight class gone tank, you have current tanks and dps/healers jumping on the dark knight bandwagon. I foresee a lot of crying on the tank forums when it comes out.

I honestly don't mind dark knight as a tank, but it did rip up my high hopes of a samurai being a tank class... I like being a tank for the most part, and was banking on samurai to be my main - now with dark knight as a tank I dont know what to think or plan for. *Cries in a corner praying for samurai tank*

[Anarnee]

Ah I knew I should have come to the job forum first instead of the general discussion. The threads there are full of whining.

I'm really excited, I'm a big fan of greatswords and while I was hoping for Samurai to be tank, I'm not let down at all. I can't wait to see what they come up with and how this will handle.