paladin vs shadowknightFollow

i was just wondering, in a "normal" party situation what are the roles of these two jobs? i heard that in EQ1 shadowknight was a tank.. but in FFXI its a DD..
and in FFXI paladin was a tank but i'm not sure what its role is.. I'm guessing tank because you have heal abilities and armor wearing capabilities..

Well, since this isn't FFXI, and not developed by SE, please feel free to throw any ideas about what these classes are out the window. :)

Both are tanks and both damage dealers. One is evil, and one is good. They do their jobs differently, and for different reasons (in an RP sense), but they are both pretty similar.

Edited, Thu Nov 18 17:06:47 2004 by Miravelle

Coming from FFXI I'm getting used to the idea of becoming a Shadow Knight and being able to take damage and dish it out. I was a PLD in FFXI, and pld damage = crap in that game. You're there to be meat tank ONLY. Dark Knights were Damage Dealer's ONLY and were paper frail when the mobs started hitting them.


I like the idea I'll be able to smack mobs up and also tank when I need to. Roles were so strict in FFXI it ended up nerfing the PT system a lot. I do like some of the aspects of combat in FFXI, but a lot of it was so rigid it cheated a lot of people and finding a group sometimes was impossible...and you couldn't solo worth a crap past lvl 20.

Just as a side note:

Being a Paladin in FFXI had NOTHING to do with damage. It wasn't he function of a PLD. If you wanted to be one, but were mad about the damage then you really wanted to be something else and didn't realize it! PLD is a great job in FFXI, provided you understand it's function - hate control and damage mitigation.

/off-topic

Anyway, I like what was said above about looking at them as two sides of the same coin. Shadow Knight is an evil Paladin, just as Paladin is a good Shadowknight.