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Job Creation 7
Welcome to Part 7 of Job Builds
Today we're going to take a look at how to do the Dark Knight
Dark Knight
Premise — The Dark Knight is a Mageknight (Gish with heavy armor and access to Knightly Weapons) who fights dirty and has a selfish, mercenary, or evil theme.
Core Gameplay Abilities — Magic, Good Melee Combat, Plate Armor, Knight Weapons, Lifedrain, Mana Drain
Premise — Much like with Dragoon, this is going to involve a lot of reviewing before I consider homebrewing something custom, as several potential options already exist.
Class/Subclass Options
Paladin — Good Proficiencies.
- Divine Sense: Detect strongly aligned beings and consecrated/desecrated objects/places. Eh. Not terribly useful in an human focused campaign, but its alright. He could detect the few undead and zombies that are in the setting.
- Lay on Hands: Healing and curing disease/poison. Bad fit, unfortunately.
- Divine Smite: Change the damage type (Probably Necrotic) and who you get extra damage against and it works out better.
- Spells The spell-list isn't perfect. It's got a lot of healing, white-mage-type-stuff. Could use an overhaul.
- Fighting Style Some of them work. Maybe changing up the list would be worthwhile.
- Divine Health Sure.
- Extra Attack Absolutely.
- Aura of Protection Sure.
- Aura of Courage Sure.
- Improved Divine Smite Sure, but change the damage type as per Divine Smite.
- Cleansing Touch The flavor doesn't fit super well. Would work better if you could end beneficial spells on enemies.
Oath of Conquest Paladin — One of the Better fits
- Oath: Not Terrible
- Oath Spells: All of these are a good fit thematically, though no Lifedrain or Manadrain.
- Conquering Strike: Awesome
- Guided Strike: Awesome
- Aura of Conquest: More Awesome
- Implacable Spirit: I like it.
- Invincible Conquerer: Sure why not
Oath of Treachery Paladin — A mediocre fit with a couple iconic abilities.
- Oath: N/A
- Oath Spells: Not great.
- Conjure Duplicate: Eh
- Poison Strike: Sure
- Aura of Treachery: Sure
- Blackguard's Escape: 100%. This happens in the cutscenes all the time.
- Icon of Deceit: Sure
Oath of Vengeance Paladin — A decent but imperfect fit.
- Oath: Eh. Too Vigilante.
- Oath Spells: These are a damn good fit, thematically. Still no Lifedrain or Manadrain though.
- Abjure Enemy: Fear + Slow
- Vow of Enmity: Sure, this fits.
- Relentless Avenger: This is neat
- Soul of Vengeance: Eh.
- Avenging Angel: Nope
Oath of the Crown Paladin — A terrible fit.
- Oath: No, Not for Dark Knight.
- Oath Spells: No, not really.
- Champion Challenge: Not really.
- Turn the Tide: No.
- Divine Allegiance: No
- Unyielding Spirit: Sure.
- Exalted Champion: Nope
Oathbreaker Paladin — A Decent Fit
- Oath: N/A.
- Oath Spells: Sure, good fit.
- Control Undead: Yeah, thats cool.
- Dreadful Aspect: Not so much.
- Aura of Hate: This is good.
- Supernatural Resistance: Sure.
- Dread Lord: This is cool.
ZenBear's Oath of Blood Paladin — Nothing we want in here.
Fighter — Good Proficiencies. Nothing that detracts from Dark Knight.
- Drackolus' Dark Knight Fighter Subclass — Looks Pretty Good.
- Stuart Logan's Dark Knight Fighter Subclass — Also Looks Pretty Good
SilentSoren's Dark Knight,2 (Images) (Direct) — Eh. It's a different flavor than we're going for.
Nordic&Nerdy's Dark Knight Class (Direct) — This is a weird blood fighter lacking a lot of the abilities we would want. Not so much.
So, we have a few options here to consider:
Eliminated:
- SilentSoren's Dark Knight: Doesn't match the FFT Dark Knight Flavor
- Nordic&Nerdy's Dark Knight Class: This is its own weird blood magic thing
- Oath of Blood Paladin: No match
- Paladin: There's no single Paladin Oath that's a good fit for Dark Knight. But there are several of them with parts that are good.
- Stuart Logan's Fighter Subclass: This looks good.
- Drackolus' Fighter Subclass: This looks better.
For the super quick & easy route: Drackolus' Subclass is the one to choose. It's just better than the others.
This is going to be the end for today's post, I ran way over-time on this one.
Next Post won't be until next weekend. Join me then to see me build Dark Knight from Paladin! Later!
— Hawkwinter
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