Guess that Next Tank Job!

[Talec]

The Evasive tank is arriving in 3.0 being DK.

Dark knight was revealed to be the Parry/Evade tank by Yoshi-P when he revealed DK in 2014.

How this will work I can only guess DK may use the Power of Darkness to make him or herself harder to be seen by the enemies in his or her Tank Stance. After all part of the Power of Darkness in any basic Fantasy story is to cloud people's vision from their own actions or their own emotions like every generic "why Darkness is dangerous" statement.

I still dont believe this until it's here and I see it with my own eyes. DK is never ever meant to be evasive. OK, DK got crippled anyway when they made him a Tank but in all FF-Franchises I ever played, I could immagine DK only as a "hard Def"-Tank, like sacrificing 20% of his health for +60% Defence and shit like this. But.never.ever.evasive. This is ridiculous and I wont believe it till it's here.

What the f*ck, DK an evasive tank. Name it already Samurai, because that's what it really is.

[Kotemon]

The Evasive tank is arriving in 3.0 being DK.

Dark knight was revealed to be the Parry/Evade tank by Yoshi-P when he revealed DK in 2014.

But isn't Parry a non issue for tanking in 14? Otherwise you'ld think war/nin/drg would be really good at parry for damage midigation. They tried to do that parry/evade tanking thing in XI and called it Rune Fencer. Even then they had to work very hard around the fact parry was not that good a defensive stat compared to evasion and shield block.

If anything Dark Knight will just be a Warrior with a big sword and some dark magic. Possibly more int or piety than either pld or war.

[Rhaja]

Blue Mage - eat tank. They eat named attacks.

[Tauu]

Beastmaster: Pet tanks, BST casts buffs on pet, gives commands and does light dps. BST tranfers his/her own HP to pet. Healers heal the BST.

[KodiHivaer]

Beastmaster: Pet tanks, BST casts buffs on pet, gives commands and does light dps. BST tranfers his/her own HP to pet. Healers heal the BST.

So basically, make BST exactly like SMN... Because everyone loves SMN.

[Chessala]

A sword/axe class. There seems to be the an unwritten rule that if it uses long sharp knives, it has to be a tank!

Crazy idea: give people the choice as what they want to queue!

[Obysuca]

A sword/axe class. There seems to be the an unwritten rule that if it uses long sharp knives, it has to be a tank!

>_> Which needs to stop, now. Some of us actually want a heavy armor, sword using DD. For some reason they seem to have a mindset that if it has heavy armor and uses a sword, it must be a tank and that's stupid.

Tbh, adding more tanks in general won't make people who don't want to tank, tank. Not to mention, theres only so many different ways you can tank, so I think we have enough already, just like enough healers. More DD would be good, you can do a variety of those. Kind of wish astrologian was a magic DD :/ considering we technically only have one atm, blm (not counting smn because...lolsmn) and blm is pretty bland as it is now. So I hope sam ends up being a DD, not a tank.

[jomoru]

>_> Which needs to stop, now. Some of us actually want a heavy armor, sword using DD. For some reason they seem to have a mindset that if it has heavy armor and uses a sword, it must be a tank and that's stupid.

Tbh, adding more tanks in general won't make people who don't want to tank, tank. Not to mention, theres only so many different ways you can tank, so I think we have enough already, just like enough healers. More DD would be good, you can do a variety of those. Kind of wish astrologian was a magic DD :/ considering we technically only have one atm, blm (not counting smn because...lolsmn) and blm is pretty bland as it is now. So I hope sam ends up being a DD, not a tank.

Say what? How is your argument against more tanks not applicable to more DD? I mean especially since there's already a bunch more DD?

[Obysuca]

Say what? How is your argument against more tanks not applicable to more DD? I mean especially since there's already a bunch more DD?

I assume you meant by how theres only so many ways to tank? There's more variety in how damage is dealt, rather than taken. And like I said, adding more tanks won't magically make people who hate tanking, decide to start, they don't like it for a reason, all that will result in is resources/time spent and a low % of people actually using the job, which could be better spent on things more people will actually use.