Darknight should be a dps Role

[Donoven8356]

First of all i know this isn't ff11 but i played that game for 11 years before switching over to ff14, and i have been playing ff14 sense they came out. I was looking forward to the day they added darknight.

I know ff14 need more tank jobs but i don't think drk should be one of them. Darknight was always the opposite of paladin, and was one of the greatest dps jobs in 11 and many other ff games.

I realy like most things they did in ff14, but i wish they would stop changing the jobs we loved from ff11. My favort jobs from 11 were darknight, warrior , and ranger.
so far.
Warrior went from dps to tank
Darknight is going from dps to tank
And now they adding another range job but its a healer class? isn't all healer classes kinda range... Where is our Ranger dps.

I know we need more tanks and healer classes. but there has to be more options then them changing the jobs we already love the way they are.

[Zephyranthes]

I don't mind.

[QuCont]

This is not FFXI-2.

[Mister-Wonderful]

This is not FFXI-2.

What they said.

[Phelsetti]

Hmm...if you like the things they are now, then you should at least give new things a try. We've still yet to see their skill sets, so lets not judge too quickly past their given roles.

[Lord_Zlatan]

This thread isn't changing anything, its a tank. End of.

[Lord_Zlatan]

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First off WAR in FFXI was not a tank, nor was it a DPS. It was both. You could play either to a certain degree and quite effectively.

Second, they never said Ranger was even coming to the game. You just literally made that up. A gun class is coming to the game and it is rumored at this point to be a healer. Why does it have to follow the same pattern as a game that came out by your own admission so long ago? We have ranged DPS in the game already.

This OP is basically "I don't like it, so no". The fact of the matter is that DRK is a tank, and thats the end of it. We will wait and see how that pans out after its released. This topic has been done to death.

Please use the search feature.

[abzoluut]

What's a Darknight? xD

I don't really mind. I mained SAM in FFXI. If they would add it as a tank, let's do it! I'd main it too.

I understand loads of people wished for DRK to be DPS. I think it's a matter of letting go of a mindset. DRK can fit as a tank. Let's wait and see how it pans out.

[Camalott]

I always felt that DRK being a DPS in XI was a missed opportunity for another tank class.

Visually, it made no sense. All that heavy armor, but couldn't take damage proportional to the physical volume of armor they were wearing (visually). Just like how I have a problem with DRG's current M.DEF.

I like the concept of DRK as a tank. It makes it more in line with the anti-paladin. Two sides of the same coin. Using drains, spike spells, reflects, etc instead of flat mitigation and def cooldowns.

[Kuwagami]

First of all i know this isn't ff11

You said it yourself

but i played that game for 11 years before switching over to ff14

Doesn't make your FFxi's experience worth more than this game's devs' ideas. But well...

Darknight was always the opposite of paladin

Nope. In fact it has little to do with paladin except in a few games (FFiv for sure, FFxi maybe ?)

and was one of the greatest dps jobs in 11 and many other ff games.

Won't comment on XI (never played it), but the other games didn't really have "dps" or stuff. There were only dps and a few healers (with huge dps possibilities) and some of them were more tanky than the others. But yeah, you can't compare online and offline games as the fundamental mechanics are different.

i wish they would stop changing the jobs we loved from ff11.

I think that they just don't care about FFxi's jobs and just do their stuff. Whatever happens in FFxi is none of FFxiv's concern. You should stop considering that the jobs are the same just because they bear the same name.