What Roles would you like for Samurai and Red Mage?

I'm being selfish, I really want SAM tank. If they do Samurai DPS i'd rather see it be more of an Iaido based type of swordsmanship.

I feel like Redmage should be a melee support DPS as well. Red Mage has never been designed in FF to deal large amounts of damage ( it could, but that was generally design flaws). It was supposed to be a job that could do a plethora of things, and a support DPS is the closest thing to that role in this games architecture.

Samurai = DPS. We already have a 2H tank in the game. Honestly it shouldve been DK that was DPS and Samurai as Tank but oh well, the ball has been dropped. Cant change it now. Its not that big of a stretch for Samurai anyway. Samurai armor has never really been the most resilient anyway. I just see DRK as a sort of Sith Lord kind of job which just screams hot blooded, rage-filled, kill or be killed DPS. Samurai have bushido and the honor system which is a more nobler cause lending itself to protecting others.

I really have no idea about what they should do with Red Mage. I guess a melee/ranged DPS hybrid would be the best fit. Assuming they stick to traditional Red Mage. Even so, RDM has always been a hybrid BLM and WHM, iirc. Some have said tank ... I can go for that too. We could always use more tanks and itd be a semi-unique approach to a clothy. Itd be great if they finally introduced a spec system with this job so it can fulfill either healer or DPS as its always been able to.

i really hope they wont make the SAM a tank like they did with the DRK, it was my favorite dd in FF11

Disappointingly, I imagine, if Red Mage, Blue Mage, and Samurai are 4.0s Jobs, we'll get;

Samurai as a Tank.
Blue Mage as a Mage DPS.
Red Mage as a Healer.

You know what I'd rather see?

Samurai as a DPS Healer. Don't even ask how that would work...
Red Mage or Blue Mage as a Mage Tank.

Seriously, is there some rule that all Healers have to be Mages, and all Tanks have to be... Tanks? It is so boring now... I'd love for them to add Dancer, shameless copy from Final Fantasy XI it might be, but a Melee DPS that uses TP to heal party members would be a refreshing change from the fairly bog standard Mage Healers we've gotten so far...

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Originally Posted by RosaBlanche

i really hope they wont make the SAM a tank like they did with the DRK, it was my favorite dd in FF11

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That's precisely why I don't want to see that awesome FFXI style DPS butchered into this system.

Samurai: Melee DPS

Red Mage: Tank

Dancer: Melee Healer (I can dream)

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Originally Posted by Nalien

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Didn't SE say we wouldn't be getting 3 classes per expansion anymore, due to the time it takes to develop, and balance each one?

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Originally Posted by Colorful

Didn't SE say we wouldn't be getting 3 classes per expansion anymore, due to the time it takes to develop, and balance each one?

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I think they said the workload from making Ninja, then Dark Knight, Astrologian, and Machinist was a lot, and they don't want to do that again. Don't know if they said they'd never be doing three Jobs again...

The little developer room from the recent event hinted at Samurai/Red Mage/Blue Mage, although the Blue Mage hint may have been a tad obscure.

I'd like to see SAM as DPS or tank
RDM as DPS/Support, the melee version of BRD/MCH.

Pure dps classes pls. If tanking was any bit interesting in this game samurai might have been cool tank with manual parrying etc, but this aint that game.

And pls, no more "support dps" either.