Quote Originally Posted by Flay_wind View Post
Surprise! FF X-2 had a Dark Knight class Dress Shere which was likely an inspiration for FF XI and XIV DRK.
It used a great sword as a weapon and it was a tanky class (iirc it had the highest health and defensive growths in the game, but was somewhat slow) with emphasis on status effects, both status immunities and status inflicting spells like Confuse, Bio, Break and Doom under Arcana ability. They also had Drain spell and a Darkness skill which sacrificed some hp for a powerful non-elemental attack to all enemies. Also they had Charon aka Self Destruct.
Ah, cool. Though it didn't serve as inspiration for XI's. XI's came out first 2002. X-2 Came out in 2003.