Why I Main Dark Knight
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- I like this job a lot, I swear.
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(the following was a portion cut from the original TWO AND A HALF MINUTE VERSION OF THE OUTRO. I DON'T KNOW WHY I RECORDED THAT. GOD.)
Thanks for all the love and support on the last video. We got to have some really fun conversations in the comments, and I got some really good feedback and support from y’all, so that means a lot.
Also, I apologize if that got a little more abstract and weird than the past couple of videos, but that contradiction of the existence of Dark Knight was a really fun idea to explore, and I think was worth having some fun with. I hope me going into the more goofy, sketch-ish side of things was as fun to watch as it was to make. I don’t feel like I’ll make a regular habit out of this, but like I said in the first video, [Clip of me saying “I don’t really know how this series is gonna go tonally”] (lol). This is me reaping the consequences of having no idea what I’m doing! I hope you enjoyed it! I think the next video will be a bit more normal, and hopefully a bit shorter.
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Thanks to Doe Allond for providing me some feedback on the editing of this video and helping me give it that little extra push it needed! This video is actively better because of her :) bsky.app/profi... (theoretically she posts occasional nsfw but in practice her account is mostly a mahjong honeyhot. in either case, follow at your own risk)
Special thanks once again to @CaetsuChaijiCh for chatting with me about my last video, and accidently providing me some info about Paladin in a video about Mentor Roulette. Go check it out, it's a really good video! • The Best and the Worst...
Final special thanks to StuffMadeHere, who i just realized I heavily base aspects of my editing style on. This wasn't intentional, but I saw one of his videos a few days ago and it clicked.
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idk this is something larryzaur puts in his descriptions it seems important
An interesting aspect to what you talked about quite a bit in regards to dark knights design, particularly referring back to how it is designed for instance in other ff games (sacrificing hp to attack for example), dark knight in ffxiv is different from that obviously! But there's some good reasons, I guess, to it's design now!
The first one is that a tank, or even a dps job, that uses its hp as a resource would be an absolute menace in group content (healers adjust?), as a tank specifically, it would have massive implications for the jobs survivability versus damage, so it is probably for the best it is as it is now 😅 although it would be so cool!
Another aspect is that back in heavensward, they sort of sold "the dark side taking over" as being represented by the mp bar, and is a central thing about dark knight. This is further expanded upon in the job quests where a huge part of the dark knights power is described as coming from its emotions (I often jokingly refer to it as the love knight, and that is based partly in the job quest stuff! 😉)
Mechanically it also makes sense for the dark knight to be the tank that has the capacity to sacrifice attack resources for defense, because it had this ability more prominently than the other tanks, even in heavensward. It simply got toned down this much because these defensive options were typically cast aside for DAMAGE because of course they were. Better not give you the option and just balance around what you will use. This does put TBN in a very awkward spot, as well as many other things about the job that explains why dark knight is getting a lot of complaints more and more. But I won't get into that 😅
Anyway I just wanted to add this extra back story bit a bit! And thank you for the shout out 😉
as a DRK main, you almost had me there for a moment
just like big sword
@@Tigerbro6 TRUE
THE CLASS IS BAD ASS! THAT'S ENOUGH REASON BROTHER!
Fun fact about the job names in the history of the franchise: The reason Paladin is called Paladin instead of just "Knight" is because Cecil from Final Fantasy 4 gets a job change from Dark Knight to Paladin in his storyline. In previous games, Paladin job was just called Knight, but they decided that wasn't thematically special enough compared to Dark Knight.
7:31 this was awesome! Love it ❤
Your motivation for picking up tanking is literally my motivation for picking up healing.
1:38 for me, maining tank came around because I was tired of spending 3+ hours trying to find one for raids. What came with learning tank though, was raid leading lol
In another note: I think you just became my favorite 14 content creator with this video.
you officially win the award for sweetest comment anybody's ever given me 💙
I didn't even know about tanks getting shorter queue times when I started playing (cause I started with tanks). Man was I SPOILED.
I didn't expect to enjoy Dark Knight as much as I did, but I did. Something about the DARKNESS WITHIN MY TORTURED SOUL made it a super satisfying class to play. It's made even funnier because my character is supposed to be an optimistic lad who just likes to punch things. But this class made me realize... he's always had trauma. :)
Pauluni why are you so funny it's not fair
Hi Paul, tank main since heavensward here, I just wanna say that I think youre right about DRK being a weirdo being the fun part of it and i think its kinda strange that people sometimes act like its not.
Being a strange janky mess of resource management is cool as hell. And I think it actually *does* thematically fit the class, just in a different way than "classic" Dark Knight,
Playing it at the highest level and needing to figure out the best time to throw out a TBN to get that refund proc and fit a 5th edge of shadow under raid buffs is really fun, and it feels REALLY COOL that its the only tank (or even class in general) whos damage optimization theoretically actually comes from Protecting The Weak. Since oftentimes that bonus optimizations gonna be targeting your lowest hp party member with a TBN before a raidwide.
Dark Knight has been going through a bit of an inconsistent cycle as of late but as a DRK Main I can’t abandon it either, I’ve hitched myself to it through all the highs and lows and while this might be easier for some I can never find myself abandoning it outright
I hope you like this video! It's gonna be... uh. You'll see.
@@Bonzi77just finished watching the video and I see you understood that the fun of Dark Knight is our Suffering
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Unfortunately the reality is Dark Knight's "mechanics" were gutted after its release in Heavensward, when you had an MP management minigame and outright did more damage than the other tanks with tank stance off - on top of that, was the only tank that had good magic defense, which is now also homogenized in every tank class to the exact same parameters. If you played HW DRK well, you could be a really effective and often times most-wanted Off-Tank in endgame content for its DPS bursts, but it unfortunately doesn't have that anymore since the Job was "too difficult" to play.
DRK was the only tank that could have both stances on at the same time.
Great video. Keep up the great work man :)
> Be me, FFXI player
lol, lmao even.
Last Resort, Scarlet Delerium
Get Cross Reaper'd into Drain III magic burst, cry in fear at my 9999 health bar. Move over Rune Fencer there's a new tank in town.
I'm gonna be real; the one thing keeping me from playing Dark Knight more are the attack animations for its 1-2-3 combo
Every other class in the game swings their weapons around willy nilly, even WARRIORS, but Dark Knight is acting like their sword is just too heavy for them
If it got just an upgrade to that where we used one hand to swing our swords, I'd probably be a dark knight main. I mean hell, I already main the other two "evil" classes (reaper and white mage) so I'd hit the trifecta.
y'know, it's funny that you say that, because i actually think dark knight has one of the more satisfying 1-2-3's in the game, and the main reason is because of the lines that get left behind after each attack that hang around for like a full second. also it's kinda fun to have one job that actually feels like it has some heft behind it's weapon. definitely respect that opinion tho
I started as a WAR main tanking was my blood then they removed stance dancing and it ruined the class for me. I still level them and enjoyed it, just not the same. Lot of the classes i enjoy seem go through massive changes that i dislike and i change because of it. Only class that didnt really changed that i stopped using was RPR, thats because im annoyed that they get use a few skills once or twice a fight. Now im MCH main and i cry because ive always like MCH it just that they seem to forget its a job and just let it die.