[Suggestion] SAMURAI

First and foremost, this would be considered a Tank Role. To make it unique, it would focus on a special skill that only it would have: Counter. It would function like parry, however it would deal return damage based on your auto-attack and 10% of your main stat (dexterity for Samurai). So basically I've tried to create something akin to a parry/counter tank. I wanted to have elements of the SAM from XI present so I decided to use those skill names for the majority of the abilities and well as their ability and need to consume/replenish TP. Again I have included the abilities as an image (because well its a lot of text, and I can format it better on excel) and a copy of the image is in the hide bar. And again, Square-Enix feel feel to use any and all of these abilities!

LINK TO SAM ABILITY IMAGE

http://i.imgur.com/bVeyjhS.png

What do you think?

Edit 5/6/15: There was some clipping happening on abilities...not sure why because I used the auto size on excel and its supposed to make everything fit...stupid technology!

Defense skill would be Shirahadori and Hamedo.

Pretty sure Yoshida has mentioned before that Samurai would be more fitting in the role of a DPS rather than tank

-sigh- dont shatter my dreams like that :(

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Originally Posted by Chihaya

Pretty sure Yoshida has mentioned before that Samurai would be more fitting in the role of a DPS rather than tank

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Yup, this pretty much. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe he mentioned that Samurai would of been a Tank but instead they thought of Dark Knight which links up to Ishgard a lot better then Samurai, and decided to make Dark Knight a tank. My guess the condition for this is Samurai is going to be a DPS when it gets released in the future. Imo we're gonna have too many Slashing Tanks and that's it, we need more slashing DPS and that's where SAM comes in. Maybe the next tank will use a Hammer or something different from a sharp weapon.

Edit : On topic, I like the idea's tbh! But I doubt its going to be a tank

I hope Samurai will be a DPS job. we still have zero swordsman DPS since Paladin & Dark Knight are both tanks.

next dps job is gonna be a caster , they added melee (nin) , ranged ( MCH ) , so next is mage or maybe the 1 hybrid dps with 2 stances for melee or caster (think RDM / BLU)

stance for melee or for magic :P , STR gear for melee , or INT gear for caster :o

they are probably saving samurai for when we get to take back doma! :D

I do believe Yoshi-P stated awhile back that if Samurai enters the game as a job, it would be a DPS role, not a tank role.

As someone who was pulling for basically this exact idea, I'm a little disappointed that it seems like it'll be coming into the game as DPS. Not that it was bad as DPS in FFXI.

My favorite thing you got on SAM in FFXI was Overwhelm- just because it was so cool conceptually, doing more damage to enemies from the front. It really drove home the whole "Stand and Fight" feel the class had. That said, I think there's potential here for Samurai as DPS- maybe give them something like what they had in FF Tactics, drawing spirits out of their blades for various effects with sort of an exorcist angle to the class since Samurai vs Demons seems to be a thing.