Quote Originally Posted by Jocelyn View Post
2H was an 11 only thing. Dark Knights original concept and use was a sword and board class/job that siphoned their hp to deal damage. Leon and Cecil are prime examples.
No, it wasn't. If you want to get purely semantic, the first Dark Knight was a *spear* user, given the fact that Leon's best weapon was a spear, though the question of whether he is a spear + shield or simply spear fighter would be up for debate given the fact that there weren't 2h weapons so you would be wasting a slot by *not* using a shield. The same applies to the iterations of Dark Knight in 4 and Tactics: leaving a hand empty is just a waste (to use a sword 2h in Tactics, you have to specifically have the passive ability equipped and, even then, it's not really all that good). In X-2, the Dark Knight explicitly uses a 2h sword and that's an explicit stylistic choice similar to what would be involved in the ARR equipment choice since the equipment system for X-2 doesn't actually involve equipping weapons and armor.

The only iterations where Dark Knight was given its own gear rather than just sharing the equipment system with every other class in the universe gave it a scythe, which is pretty much a completely unique weapon within the annals of the FF gearing system, or a 2h sword. Since I dearly hope they don't decide to give DRKs botany offhand weapons as their mainhands, it's a strong possibility that, if they were given their own class, they'd be using a 2h sword (and it helps that DRK really is the only job/class that they have left that could feasibly use 2h swords as their iconic weapon). If they're DPS, I strongly suspect that they'll be sword and board, but only because they'll be slapped onto the GLA as a DPS job.