Late game here, Knigth really is useless huh

[NunoTheDude(Youtube)]

ive tried to make it work but its just so mid, i am talking about all the lienage not just the started for me hulkenberg is better as a buff and debuffer so i chose faker and commander lioenages

[bruh]

the advanced classes are much better, you get a advanced taunt that both taunts and blocks in one turn.
they also get some attack skills that also applies debuffs

but for the most aprt most of the damage comes from it's synth skills which can be absolutely broken with the accesory that reduces turn cost

[Null Winter]

The prestige knights are insane, but the starter and middle level are mediocre; they aren't tanky enough to endure taking multiple turns from enemy squads/bosses, they lack good support skills, and this is a game where you want to be attacking to wipe squads in one turn.

Now, the last 2 levels are absurd; taunt AND defend on a single action is a good turn ender, and the non-caster (Paladin, I think?) paradoxically gets per-turn MP regen as a passive skill that can be inherited by other classes which need it more. There's also automatic attack reflects at 15% chance; it's hilarious to watch a boss eat its own damage.

[The Living Darkness]

Yeah like others have said, Knight and even Hulkenberg in general felt weak for the first half of the game. However Dark Knight is insanely good. I never found Paladin useful other than Revitalize 3 as an unlocked passive on a few characters. The only thing Knight has thats useful prior to Dark Knight is passive from Knight that gives a defense boost at the start of a fight, i forget the name, but that passive plus magic regen one from Wizard, the one that requires you to be buffed to get magic regen is pretty manditory. Later Dark Knight gets Flawless, which is an amazing passive and makes use of the wizard passive.

Royal Knight is insane. Sure Hulkenberg as a Royal Knight will not be your highest damage dealer, like Dark Knight will likely be for a large portion of the game. But she is unkillable and pretty much soaks most the damage from the team, as well as wastes alot of enemy actions due to reflects. Its pretty hard to remove Hulkenberg as Royal Knight from the team, I imagine you could make Heismay do a similar tanking job as a Royal Thief with a taunt skill equipped, though he would put out less damage but provide more offensive support through debuffs.

[SushiJaguar]

If Knight feels weak, you're probably just getting to grips with the system. Knight's got the best early-game Synthesis skill, Hammer of Justice. It's the first "heavy" tier you can get (probably) and imparts a Weakness to Pierce on the enemy you hit with it. If you use it over and over, you consume and then reapply the Weakness every time, letting your Knight output 400+ damage in the first floors of the first dungeon. Add some Strength accessories, a rank or two of attack-up (Tarukaja, etc) and you'll easily clear 600+ damage.

I'm just leaving the second town and Hulkenberg is doing about 800 with one rank of attack-up and hitting a Weakness. The only thing that matches her is my MC with all his points dumped into Magic as a Wizard, using Meteophor.

[Sage Pirotess]

Did you ever need to tank anything.... honestly not one boss needed a tank on hard. Even the hardest fights 2 saviors are more preferable than a knight.

2 saviors, 1 can remove all debuffs on party or buffs on enemy, other full cure party. Other 2 members damage it til death.

[HRHV87]

In regicide Knight is very high value, some fights are straight up impossible without one.

[Hedonist]

I'm having a good fight against boss with a Dark Knight on my team.

[NunoTheDude(Youtube)]

Originally posted by Sage Pirotess:

Did you ever need to tank anything.... honestly not one boss needed a tank on hard. Even the hardest fights 2 saviors are more preferable than a knight.

2 saviors, 1 can remove all debuffs on party or buffs on enemy, other full cure party. Other 2 members damage it til death.

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