PLD/DRK Crossclasses

[Sapphidia]

Well the OT role is entirely the reason you'd have BFB. It would give Paladins and Dark Knights a small boost in Burst DPS when they're able to DPS safely without being mauled, just to give them that small nudge towards Warriors who are currently the defacto OT of choice in pretty much every situation. It's only a wipe waiting to happen if the tank is bad and presses it at the wrong time, and I don't think you can restrict a skill from a class based on that.

[fm_fenrir]

Well the OT role is entirely the reason you'd have BFB. It would give Paladins and Dark Knights a small boost in Burst DPS when they're able to DPS safely without being mauled, just to give them that small nudge towards Warriors who are currently the defacto OT of choice in pretty much every situation. It's only a wipe waiting to happen if the tank is bad and presses it at the wrong time, and I don't think you can restrict a skill from a class based on that.

Unfortunately, you have to balance the game around bads when you consider the tank role, because a tank that decides he wants to burn B4B as MT is going to wreck a run by instantly disintegrating and taking the healers with him. Yes, good/smart tanks will use B4B appropriately, but think about how many awful DRKs there were, and now imagine they had B4B on top of that.

MORE DPS! WAIT WHY AM I DEAD? - every tank forum thread after making B4B available to DRK and PLD

[Brannigan]

Unfortunately, you have to balance the game around bads when you consider the tank role

No you don't. Healers can screw up just as badly with bad Cleric Stance usage. Tanks who die instantly when they use Blood for Blood would eventually figure out how to read their tooltips or be told by someone who can. Not that it matters since they're really unlikely to change what classes paladin or dark knight draw from. The ultimate prize for cross class would really be rogue, though. Shade Shift, Goad, and (for paladin) Death Blossom would be ridiculous.

However, I think rather than changing the classes that are drawn from, I think either changing the offered skills or altering the skills that are offered is more likely. A 30 second Fracture would help both paladin and dark knight, and I could see them enabling Esuna for use by paladin as well. However, outside of Stoneskin, paladin's cross class has always been pretty garbage. I wouldn't get your hopes up.