What Roles would you like for Samurai and Red Mage?

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Originally Posted by zuldar

Red mage could take up a healer spot, though instead of just having heals they ought to be limited to the equivalent of cure 1 and medica 1. The rest could be made up by buffs and debuffs to make more healing unnecessary. Careful application of those buffs and debuffs would make minor healing adequate for 4 mans and allow one full healer to be enough for 8 mans. Of course this would be a pain to balance, so never going to happen.

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If they could manage this I'd switch to main RDM in a heartbeat

Samurai - Melee DPS

as far as Red Mage goes, would be very interesting to see a mage in a tank role

Magic melee DPS for RDM, I think balance issues would arise if they could do both melee and ranged efficiently, and would have to weaker than all other classes in both regards. Don't think we want another AST where it took them 2 months to properly balance it out. SAM can be either a tank or melee DPS, we're lacking a 2H melee DPS so DPS is the way to go I think.

I can already see the 10 hour long queues if they introduce two DPS though. =l

Against my own personal desires, I picked DPS for both.

I'd love to see Red Mage be a healer, but...a lot of people that had never tanked or healed picked up Dark Knight and Astrologian because they wanted to try the new jobs. And I commend them for that, I really do.

But arrogance and a lack of understanding of what their respective roles are supposed to be doing is a very, very bad combination.

While SAM as a tank makes sense, I'd really rather it be a dps. We already have 2 sword-wielding tanks and it will be rather redundant to have have another 2-hand sword tank.

Could also make RDM capable of filling any one of the three traditional roles. A filler job for whatever role your party has left over.

Both of the eastern Doman themed jobs being DPS would be super redundant, so I'm voting Samurai as a tank. I already got an eastern dps in the form of Ninja and Tanks have no eastern themed jobs to pick from.

Red mage could be a pretty neat sword support dps.

Samurai shouldn't be in imo. I don't really see the appeal and it doesn't really sound that unique. Just another two hand sword fighter.

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Originally Posted by _Pigzig

Samurai shouldn't be in imo. I don't really see the appeal and it doesn't really sound that unique. Just another two hand sword fighter.

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Well, as a DPS, it would be a change of pace. Our only sword-wielding classes right now are tanks. And who knows, it might end up sharing some of DRK's weapons or gear and end up being a "fork in the road" job, similar to Summoner and Scholar.

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Originally Posted by _Pigzig

Samurai shouldn't be in imo. I don't really see the appeal and it doesn't really sound that unique. Just another two hand sword fighter.

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If you simplify classes down to the weaponry of course it's going to be similar to other classes. But a class that uses a more medieval style of fighting, coupled with dark magic is completely different than a traditional samurai in my book.