DRK being compared to past FF games.

[Martin_Arcainess]

Hi all \o just making a thread about people complaining about Dark Knight being a Tank class and not a DPS.

One of their reason which I don't get is that they comparing the DRK to it's appearance in past FF games and say it was a DPS back then or because it was in those games. Which I find to be a illogical reason due to the fact that this is a MMO and the prevouise games was not a MMO in fact the idea of the Tank,DPS, Healing roles wasn't even thought of back then since SE have no released a MMO back then so comparing DRK back then is illogical.

[U]But DRK was a DPS back in XI.[/U
This is XIV, Not XI.

And just because it has a Great Sword doesn't mean it should be a DPS class. Yeah the Great Sword general dose alot of damage but it would be slow.

But all in all I say it's a lot of fuss of just a Role.

So what bothers you about it and do you agree with what I say?

[Lord_Zlatan]

in the end if you want to play DRK, you are going to play DRK. A lot of people in XI that played NIN probably didn't want to tank, but they ended up doing it because thats the role it filled.

DRK will be awesome, I have a good feeling!!!!

[Xyrn86]

It's more about how a class that generally kills itself to kill the enemy makes sense as a tank. That being said I have resigned myself to the fact that DRK is going to be a tank. Not happy, just understand why they chose to do it that way.

[Risvertasashi]

Similar to this, I don't understand why people are upset that machinist/gunner/musketeer/whatever they choose to call it might be a healer.

I mean, c'mon. Are people really going to say any class they think is cool can only ever be a DPS? Tanks and healers can't have nice things? x.x

[Ultimatecalibur]

I mean, c'mon. Are people really going to say any class they think is cool can only ever be a DPS? Tanks and healers can't have nice things? x.x

But I wanna see the cool class make big numbers, not work...

~Traditional reason dps think cool new classes should be dps

People will complain about pretty much any class getting any role that they don't want to play.

[Brianmj]

Similar to this, I don't understand why people are upset that machinist/gunner/musketeer/whatever they choose to call it might be a healer.

I mean, c'mon. Are people really going to say any class they think is cool can only ever be a DPS? Tanks and healers can't have nice things? x.x

I don't think its about tanks or healing not able to have nice things. I think it's the way Yoshida and team are handling the jobs - it's like they're taking the communities aggregate expectation about what a class/job should be, and saying "nope". Look at all the topics on SMN being a dot class, or THF can't be in the game due to lore reason, and now DRK. There bound to be some disappointment, but in the end, it's Square's Final Fantasy, not ours.

[Tupsi]

Similar to this, I don't understand why people are upset that machinist/gunner/musketeer/whatever they choose to call it might be a healer.

Answer this:

How much healing does Captian Madison do to you when he's shooting your face off?
Or the Captain in Pharos Sirius?
Or the Goblin Marksmen/Snipers?
How much healing did Merly do to the Sahgain she shot in the head?

It's not that people are "upset" it's just...why? xD

[Ghastly]

The problem for me is that visually what is the appeal of a Gladiator after they add Dark knight?

[Lord_Zlatan]

The problem for me is that visually what is the appeal of a Gladiator after they add Dark knight?

What does this have to do with anything? One is dark one is light. One uses a sword and shield, the other a great sword. We can equip glamoured equipment on both classes and they have different abilities. If you meant Paladin instead of Gladiator.

If you were talking about Gladiator... So what? No one plays classes after level 30 anyway.

[Urtear]

No one plays classes after level 30 anyway.

Ida know...I've seen a lvl 45 MRD in DD when healing a low level roulette once, and Titan norm had a 34 CNJ trying to heal. Gave me the anime 'dot-eyes' with the double blink.