Dark Knight= No base class?

[Dannythm]

I too have the feeling that they are going to get rid of the class system (wonder what will happen to DoH and DoL then), or get as far away from it as possible. The introduction of jobs in he first place was a step towards this, what I don't know is if that's the way Yoshi want to do things, why didn't he just did on ARR release.

But if classes are going to stay and they'll add more in the future (I guess we'll know in Dec 20), that the other possibility is that DRK will be like what Death knights were in WoW, some special job that starts at a higher lvl, to encourage new players to jump right into the game on the expansion and have a lvl 50 job to o play with their friends, and a Tank no less, so then alter on when they are already hooked they can go to the old content and unlock all classes and level up 1-60.

[AdamuKun322]

I'm thinking you'll need to have at least PLD and WAR to 50 to unlock Dark Knight.

[Jynx]

Thank the lord.

The ancient class system was a relic of a system that didn't pan out and clung to the job system draging it down. Hopefully each Job in the game can now be unique and not be tied to a handfull of skills that make it different.

[Inosaska]

I'm thinking you'll need to have at least PLD and WAR to 50 to unlock Dark Knight.

There are no requirements to play dark knight except for buying the expansion.

[Yuber]

I think whats happening is

no base class means it has no class, for example rogue/archer/marauder etc..

all of the skills that would of been class skills are turned into job skills.

and possibly they could either give drk cross class equivalent skills for the rest or give it cross class skills like normal jobs.

and while theres no prereq to getting drk, similiar to sub jobs in xi you should try to obtain all skills that drk is able to use if they go cross class skills route.

[AspectOfWinter]

Personally, I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that if and when Red Mage gets implemented, it won't have a prerequisite class either. I think that would be the easiest way to put it in, TBH.

I think that a major overhaul of the class/Job system is inevitable at some point down the road in any case...

[EdwinLi]

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It up to how far they want to push things so players start playing Tank Roles and Healer roles more.

Worst case is that they may go crazy with the new Stand Alone Jobs idea and release a bunch of new Tanks into the game with SAM being one of the Tanks. (and maybe Gunblade Job as a Tank as well due to Gunblade users Tankish appearance so far in FF14)

or they can balance things out and release 1 tank, 1 DD, and 1 Healer per new Job release during 3.X era and beyond.

[Arkine]

I'd freaking love it if Heavensward comes with a retool of the battle system, where all classes go away for good.

[Zumi]

I don't think they will have a total removal of the class system. Its just that new jobs in 3.0 will not have classes but so they don't have to go back and retool all the old class/jobs they will keep the old system for the other jobs.

Basically
3.0+ job = no class
2.X job = has a class

[Hurlstone]

I am not particularly bothered if they get rid of classes or not. I must admit, I do see them as a rather needles requirement. As long as DRK still gets a story, then I will be happy.