This debate reminds me of what I often say that is that you don't have to roleplay a job to be a badass. It's just a simple logical fallacy most people get into, assuming that mechanical superiority equates to lore superiority.
For example, 95% of sword-wielding player-characters I meet are free paladins, rather than just swordsman. My character is not a free paladin, and I assume his 20 year experience in the Ul'dahn military would be outright superior to any free paladin in their early 20s. Just look at Raubahn. Similarly, a lot of monks and not many pugilists.Â
We want to latch onto these job crystals as RP justification for why our PCs are awesome, rather than relying on a vivid backstory or actually playing a badass that comes across as one.
As for dark knight, no reason you can't play as a zweihander-wielding fighter who uses generic aether in combat. And also coincidentally is a vigilante. Just calling it dark Knight, as people have already pointed out, ties it to Ishgard, the same way samurai are only found in Japan.
For example, 95% of sword-wielding player-characters I meet are free paladins, rather than just swordsman. My character is not a free paladin, and I assume his 20 year experience in the Ul'dahn military would be outright superior to any free paladin in their early 20s. Just look at Raubahn. Similarly, a lot of monks and not many pugilists.Â
We want to latch onto these job crystals as RP justification for why our PCs are awesome, rather than relying on a vivid backstory or actually playing a badass that comes across as one.
As for dark knight, no reason you can't play as a zweihander-wielding fighter who uses generic aether in combat. And also coincidentally is a vigilante. Just calling it dark Knight, as people have already pointed out, ties it to Ishgard, the same way samurai are only found in Japan.
