Dark Knight job vs Death Knight (WoW)

[silverwell]

WoW's Death Knights are plate wearing, 2-hander wielding, plague flinging, Necromantic killing machines.
In the starter zone for DKs, were mass murderers. They slaughtered everyone. The corpses that werent ranimated into servitude were used for extra parts or fodder. The gryphons were reanimated for use as flying mounts.
Final Fantasy DRKs make me think of knights that use dark/shadow magics and sacrifice of self's health to dish out damage. Emo knight, perhaps? Not necessarily evil.
Before the big baddie in WoW sent them on the suicuide mission, the DK was pretty much evil. They were controlled by the big baddie until 'something snaps' and they wrestle their freedom from the baddie's will/control.

[Empressia]

Now that Dark Knight has been confirmed as a class I've been really wondering what could lie in store for us in 3.0 lorewise, what reasons they will have for joining the war effort, and so forth.

To me, the fact that it doesn't require Gladiator as a base job raises some questions. Do you think DRKs will be pretty much this game's version of Death Knights from WoW?

I never played FFXI, but were DRKs in that game as "evil" as WoW's DKs? Do you think it's virtually a given that the DRKs in this game will fall under this trope: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...ociopathicHero

Then again, Cecil from FF4 really managed to go against the stereotype...

WoW's DK were not evil, they're just being mind controlled by Arthas in which the mind control was interrupted by Tirion's Ashbringer Light. And how do u explain "EVIL" in ff14 just by affiliating with dark powers? So why u didn't say BLM are true evils then considering lorewise their power hunger brought the end of an era?

[Dioptase]

Compared to WoW dark knight should not even be similar. DRK have always been self sacrificing for power, if you look at their trademark abilities they sacrifice their health for extra damage. Which I really wonder how that's gonna translate to tanking possibly less health = more mitigation?
Blood weapon is one of the few I can think of that recover health, DK on the other hand deals more with diseases and undead necromacy.