Your thoughts on DRK as a Tank in the future?

[Borascythe]

I have mixed feelings on it.

The good part: I love tanking and DRK is easily my favorite job in the FF franchise. I can understand why DPS players are upset. I was very upset when I started playing this game and thinking "DRK is my favorite class...too bad it will never be a tank ." Luckily, I was wrong!

The bad part: I am not the only one that thinks this way. Sure, it will attract a handful of people that would never tank. Most of them will be terrible and DRK may become the dragoons of the tanking world. Worse yet, a lot of already experienced tanks, like myself, will probably reroll DRK because it's a badass tank class, thereby abandoning WAR and PLD. Hopefully the tanks remain homogenous to an extent. Really don't want DRK to be limited to magic tanking or something.

[Drayton]

Based on the duty finder queues, we are in a definite need of more players tanking. I think DRK will bring more players to into the tanking fold, and maybe more of them might enjoy it. Yeah, every one will go DRK in the beginning but things should really balance themselves out. Everyone who really enjoys tanking has probably leveled them both and can find the use in either class. Adding DRK just means another tool in the box.

[Marxam]

Adding DRK just means another tool in the box.

Pretty much this^

I highly doubt that tanks will outright stop playing war/pld but instead choose between which job suits the scenario best. Boss does a lot of magic damage use drk, boss does alot of physical damage use a war/pld. Plus Im excited to see what new skills we will be getting from 50-60. If the leveling pattern stays the same we should get five new weaponskills/traits and two job skills.

I'm hoping these skills make a comeback but with obvious tweaking to fit the new battle mechanics.

Rampage
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