Dark Knights aren't anti-Paladins.A quick google search tells me I'm not alone in this; when searching google images for "grit" or "gritty" the same few images keep popping up - a tough, no-nonsense, hands-on, muscled individual. Often it kicks up images of sheriffs in the Wild West. What it doesn't show, however, is an Anti-Paladin, dishonorable, shadow and darkness wielding manipulator.
In fact they're the only thing standing between corrupt church officials/ Inquisitors and innocent people so the Wild West imagery is startlingly appropriate.
My life while tanking is an existential hell from which there is no escape.
I think in my mind I had tied in that they would remove corrupt church officials, Inquisitors, and Paladins as the reason I considered them anti-Paladin; they had to be the antithesis to the knights they had to condemn. However, your viewpoint is absolutely valid and I can respect it. I think that if we kept with the spaghetti western theme I would see them as more of the Lone Gunman Vigilante who would dispatch corrupt sheriffs, but there is a degree of grit in that as well.
I'm not sure I still agree with the ability name, but I can respect it a bit more using that theory. Thank you!
Yeah I don't really think they're the sheriffs. Just the Wild West imagery in general is really kinda fitting in a startling way. Thanks for your response, it was extremely heartening to see someone so cheery about other points of view on the forum!I think in my mind I had tied in that they would remove corrupt church officials, Inquisitors, and Paladins as the reason I considered them anti-Paladin; they had to be the antithesis to the knights they had to condemn. However, your viewpoint is absolutely valid and I can respect it. I think that if we kept with the spaghetti western theme I would see them as more of the Lone Gunman Vigilante who would dispatch corrupt sheriffs, but there is a degree of grit in that as well.
I'm not sure I still agree with the ability name, but I can respect it a bit more using that theory. Thank you!
Though I do admit I hope the localization team gives the DRK abilities a good, long look so maybe the name will change!
My life while tanking is an existential hell from which there is no escape.
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