Quote Originally Posted by Daralii View Post
The MCH is presumably the Knight, since it's game over if it falls.
That would be the King, not the Knight

As others said earlier this thread, plenty of potential reasons for there not to be a Knight turret.

1. The initial Machinist questline revolves around trying to improve Ishgardes defenses, which was entirely composed of Knights, by letting any man, even the lowborne of the Brume, be capable of picking up a weapon and fighting for Ishgarde. It ends with the agreement that Machinists supporting Knights makes for the strongest defense. In this respect, the Knights are your fellow party members, or at least the tank. Designing a Knight turret or automaton would suggest replacing Ishgardes knights, or in a gameplay aspect, replacing the Tank. So if Knight ever is implemented it would likely be an emnity generating machine, not a damaging one.

2. Ishgarde already has Knight automatons in the Vault. Name is already taken. We do NOT want to be sued by the Holy See for copyright infringement, believe me! Remember what Alphinaud and Tataru had to go through just because of a suspicion of breaking the law? Imagine if they had just plain straight up broken it!