Changeing DRK

[spectrabn]

I really didn't know where to post this thread so hopefully its ok. To whoever makes the game, please, please can you make DRK dps again like in final fantasy 11 online. That was my favorite job and was really good at it, loved the scythe like a grim reaper. I was so looking forward to DRK coming and then it was a tank job , so disappointed. Maybe in ne expansion pack you guys can make a new tank job and bring DRK back to being a dps job.

[shao32]

sorry but no thanks, DRK was made as tank and its going to be a tank until the game gets shutdown.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

No offense, but this won't ever happen. It would anger players who dedicated themselves as a DRK tank, go against this game's philosophy of DRK being an unothodox defender against injustice to which their darkside is currently only a mean to an end, not an occult art and it would invalidate all work since 3.0 to design DRK as a tank and not just a beefy dps.

That aside, tanking in this game is currently very close to being a glorified dps - tanks are basically dps that specced into defense for survival, so it isn't so far fetched to technically play a dps-y dark knight.

[Enla]

They'll probably give the scythe to another class anyways given their stance on no two classes sharing the same weapon types aside from the Arcanist duo. So I wouldn't doubt that eventually we'll see a DPS approximation coming out eventually for that /weapon/ but DRK will always remain a tank.

[Kurando]

I'm curious about the future DRK rework though that SE have planned, likely for the next expac. Perhaps the job is changed so that it does use a Scythe instead and the long blades used currently are reassigned to a new job. That would be interesting to say the least, but definitely DRK is mostly likely staying as a tank.

[Enkidoh]

I'm curious about the future DRK rework though that SE have planned, likely for the next expac. Perhaps the job is changed so that it does use a Scythe instead and the long blades used currently are reassigned to a new job. That would be interesting to say the least, but definitely DRK is mostly likely staying as a tank.

I hate to say it but that has about as much chance of happening as FFXIV version 1.0 being restored to service and replacing ARR. DRK's symbol after all is a stylized great sword, so it's conclusive that it will always be great sword exclusively.

[Kurando]

DRK's symbol after all is a stylized great sword, so it's conclusive that it will always be great sword exclusively.

The Gladiator and Marauder symbols say otherwise. Granted they evolved in to jobs but let's not believe symbols are ever a permanent representation. Anyway it was just me sharing a fantasy dream out loud, you could humour me with your own suggestion rather than dismiss it, but hey ho to each their own.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

The Gladiator and Marauder symbols say otherwise. Granted they evolved in to jobs but let's not believe symbols are ever a permanent representation. Anyway it was just me sharing a fantasy dream out loud, you could humour me with your own suggestion rather than dismiss it, but hey ho to each their own.

Enkidoh meant the symbolic weapon tied to and worn by a job, not the class / job icon. The icon of DRK symbolizes an arcane magic symbol, not a greatsword.

If you see an axe, it symbolizes WAR / MRD here.
If you see a one-handed sword with a shield, it symbolizes PLD / GLA.
If you see a greatsword(-esque weapon), it symbolizes DRK.

It's the actual aesthetic Enkidoh speaks about.

[Kurando]

I think my original way of expressing what I was trying to say is just going over people's heads. Never mind.