@Naoki Yoshida-> Make Samurai a Tank class!

If samurai is coming for 4.0, its too late to make suggestions. They are probably too far long with it to change it now.

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Originally Posted by DevilsDontFly

As far as I know the community wants SAM not to be a tank. It's okay to say that's what you want and what you feel is right but speaking for the community like that as if the majority wants tank SAM is simply not the truth.

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How can you tell someone to not speak for the community, yet you just did?

I'm another one of those who doesn't consider NIN to be a sword DPS, those are daggers and maybe some short swords here and there but mostly daggers so no, I'm sorry but this is not a sword DPS class (least not from the POV of one random NIN player). I agree with others also wanting an actual sword wielding DPS, it would definitely be nice if SAM could fill this role though I'll probably play it regardless just because it being SAM. For the moment all I am waiting for is to at least see the other 2 t-shirts Yoshida could possible wear and then do my little panic dance as I wonder (if SAM gets 'confirmed') if it'll be a tank or a DPS

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Originally Posted by Madepossible

Monk already is excluded from most raids, why making them even more excluded with adding more classes to the DPS tier?

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i am thinking about a samurai tank with a Kanabo as weapon. samurai, tank, another blunt weapon to increase monk's utility (monk's can lower the blunt resistance of enemys). then it's not even a second two hander sword tank...

but yeah... a samurai without a katana? why even bother implementing? xD

Imo Sam should be a tank.

Pld and Drk are basically the same.
Lower dps tanks.

Pld: physical res
Drk: magic res

War: purely dps with self heal
Sam: will be the same as War without self heal but with something new.

Basically pld/drk are the same so War need something like it a purely dps tank and Sam would work just right.


There alot of other jobs that can fit into dps why take Sam and make it a dps then. Sam would be a 2nd main OT giving War a fight for OT job.

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Originally Posted by Madepossible

So to make it fair,

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I'm not a fan of the idea of SAM being a tank, but I'm having trouble with the concept of throwing Asians a bone out of "fairness". I don't think it's really running through a lot of heads that SAM being a dps is racially unfair?

If you want Sam to be a dps what would they make as the tank job then.

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Originally Posted by Greedalox

I'm not a fan of the idea of SAM being a tank, but I'm having trouble with the concept of throwing Asians a bone out of "fairness". I don't think it's really running through a lot of heads that SAM being a dps is racially unfair?

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To me War is a tank but it feel more like a dps. In the end I believe Sam will be the same.

I want it to be a dual job set-up like sch/anc with tank/dps. :3

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Originally Posted by MisterLucy

To me War is a tank but it feel more like a dps. In the end I believe Sam will be the same.

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I don't think it'll be a tank, pretty sure I recall Yoshi P saying he'd prefer SAM to be a dps. No source though so don't quote me on it.