How to become Dark Knight?

[Naoki34]

I am lvl 49 Paladin.

I own the base game.

Can i be a dark knight? I looted a lvl 32 Sword for Dark Knight and i want to use it.

Thanks,

You must finish the entire ARR content and start the Heavensward expansion by accessing Ishgard.

About the loot, it's because the DRK starts at level 30, like AST and MCH.