So DRK will be mp based

[Judge_Xero]

Will it also use magic?
Y: For attacking enemies, there will be both single target and AoE (ranged) magic available. Many people think that MP will be considered important to dark knights, but it will be more important to manage the dark power. However, the source of that power is MP, so in that way, MP is important. By the way, within the dark force, there is a system on another level which will further strengthen actions situationally. Tanking with dark knight is not like anything that we've had before.

This right here makes me think that it will be a Tanking BLM.

Astral - Enmity + Damage (Passive MP usage so you can't use it as a DPS class - i.e. you have to swap to Umbral)

Umbral - MP recovery

Defensive and Offensive skills that use MP and generate Enmity

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So you can sit in Umbral and use Defensive Skill and some low Enmity Skills

But you will have to swap to Astral to "keep" Enmity - but with Limited MP you have to we wary of if you will be able to pop your Big CD's for Defense.

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So this makes me think that it will have both amazing Damage and Defense, but on the flip side, it will have terrible damage/enmity outside of Astral, and will be extremely squishy without using defensive buffs.

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So by stacking Piety you could lengthen your time in the Astral phase while being able to use your arsenal of MP skills, but most likely it will be better to master the timing of each phase.