Talk:Knights/@comment-50.168.76.32-20150506220709/@comment-26459036-20150623072158

A knight build is absolutely conceivable and useful, I have run my entire game mostly around knights and done extremely well, clearing all story and evemt battles with ease, and I rarely encounter an opponent I cannot defeat in PvP type battles. I will say that I am a paying player although I prefer to use most of my prysma to refill AP these days, and I did not plan to build around knights but rather was pulled that direction by the type of high quality arcana I happened to draw, especially early on. While I concede that knights dont inflict as much DPS as soldiers in strait up normal attacks, this is not their purpose, and faulting them for it is akin to saying "I dont want to use clerics because they are not good at attacking". With a knight build you rely on knight's strengths. They tend to have high HP and can take alot of hits, you never have to worry about ranged foes because knights take very little damage from them and knights are the best class for self supporting (they dont need other classes to reach max usefulness) as many knights have skills and abilities that heal in various ways (Parchelle) and buff other knights (Wayne, Dannady) and there are some seriously powerful AOE and single target damage dealers in the knight class (Fee Gleah may be one of the best in game right now). Yes knights are not good for hitting auto battle and having them run off and do the most damage, however I think that in the hands of someone who wants to take the time to learn how to manage damage placement and special timing for their particular team of knights (as knights abilities vary widely there is no one size fits all strategy) knights are arguably the best class in the game right now.