Dark Knight Megathread

[AddictedToWitches]

I said this in my own thread but it'd be nice if DRK was the actual sustain/drain tank. They were originally in HW and SB and traditionally have self healing and lifesteal in other FF games. It's very weird they went the healing route on WAR instead. I feel like bloodwhetting should honestly have been what an upgrade to blood weapon should have been

[Claire_Pendragon]

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as the above poster said about WAR, it was made the healer tank in 1.23 and 2.0 which is odd, since PLD is mostly based on the Knight jobs that could heal, and WAR is based on a mash up of Knights that couldnt heal, and Berserker. (Im not sure what Warrior was called in the japanese version of FFXI. I just know PLD was just called Knight. edit: double checked WAR, and its soldier/warrior depending on who does the translation)

With DRKs sometimes having heals, its not too far fetched to be the "drain" tank. (Id make it more complex than that personally, but imma not flood the thread with "what if" versions of DRK right now)

EDIT#2: most of the job design was changed when Yoshida stepped in, and wanted to base a lot of it on Lineage 2. So this is why DRK was the "Magic Defense Tank", and SMN was the "poison/DoT job".

[Shurrikhan]

I said this in my own thread but it'd be nice if DRK was the actual sustain/drain tank. They were originally in HW and SB and traditionally have self healing and lifesteal in other FF games. It's very weird they went the healing route on WAR instead. I feel like bloodwhetting should honestly have been what an upgrade to blood weapon should have been

I'm not sure where this myth comes from, at least as it pertains to XIV. Warrior literally started as the tank whose only means of sustain was drain. Their only native mitigation skill, Foresight, gave all of 3% mitigation. Bloodbath was their most significant defensive (lasting for 30s per 90), alongside healing for 3x the damage of Inner Beast. Storm's Path likewise predates Souleater.

That said, Blood Weapon giving MP instead of HP was already thematic and more useful, if only for the fact of it being more bankable. The controllable vampiric portion of DRK originally came from MP expenditure, enhancing the potency and therefore healing of Souleater or causing Abyssal Drain to heal for damage dealt, as Bloodbath already did but at a much higher percentage (100% instead of 25%).

The problem was just that they removed sustain control from MP in DRK. Though, tbf, they also removed its bankability from Warrior, who could previously bank gauge for the purpose.