New Samurai Tank

Stay your pitchforks for a sec. I know Samurai is typically a DPS class and would probably be the most fun as such, but bear with me.

For the most part, I think it would be a great "stance" tank with focus on parry. Having a stance that not only increased their parry rate, but the % amount of damage parried would make for good tanking. Obviously have something in there for enmity.

For a set list, having no set rotation, but going pseudo ninja where a certain combination of attacks will have different effects. No set starting point, but say 5 moves, and a variety of different ways to combine them like: 1>2>2>4, 2>4>3, 5>4>1>2, 1>2>3, 3>5>2, etc. These could be used to increase DEF, Attack Speed, Skill Speed, Magic DEF, debuff the target, AOE attacks, etc. Keep it to 5-6 outcomes for now, maybe.


That's all the room I have. Thanks for your time, guys. :)

I forgot to add, the armor set would be everything of the current tanks and dragoons except for the 'heavy' gear that includes the head and body.

All I want in this game is SAM or DRK as a tank job. My two main classes in 11 and I MTed HNMs on both.

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Originally Posted by SirTaint

All I want in this game is SAM or DRK as a tank job. My two main classes in 11 and I MTed HNMs on both.

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DRK has been confirmed as a tank! :D

I hope they save Samurai as a tank and don't introduce it as a dps in 3.0. I am not really interested in dark knight because I don't really like big weapon tanking. I don't enjoy the aesthetic of warrior for that reason. I was really excited about playing a samurai tank and would probably switch to it as my main if it happens.

samuri are front line warriors and it can work with the class system

I too hope SAM will be a tank. If I am not mistaken, they mentioned that DRK would focus on parry inter alia.

It would be nice if SAM focuses on something else to keep that diversity going. I can think of a lot of options when they would make it a counter tank. This, in my opinion, fits SAM best in terms of tanking.

Let's wait for Tokyo's fanfest and hope we'll hear more!

What's the point on having three melee two hander sword weapon as a tank?

After loving the blademaster tank in bns , I really got used to the idea that FF would one day have a samurai tank. I believe that dream crashed to the ground when SE decided DRK would be a tank. We already got 2 sword tanks( Paladin, dark knight ), and as of yet, no sword dps. Samurai will surely fill this spot...

Parry is really not a very strong stat at the moment, so it would need to be redone to be overally functional. Personally from a flavor stand point I think some sort of fencer wielding a rapier would be a better choice for a parry tank as well.

My honest hopes for Samurai are a dps that uses draw stance style moves so it would be better set apart from Warrior and Dark Knight who also use two-handed weapons.

Samurais usually are tanks, they are just more damage focused than knight and have a lot a debuff attacks. The very nature of a samurai is tank like, they wear flashy armor to stand out and draw attention on the battlefield and were all about protecting their masters.

Also wasn't SAM supposed to be a tank in FF11 like how ninja was going to be dps until it was found that they could both do opposite jobs better? (or more so that parry tanks didn't work well.)

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Originally Posted by VargasVermillion

Samurais usually are tanks, they are just more damage focused than knight and have a lot a debuff attacks. The very nature of a samurai is tank like, they wear flashy armor to stand out and draw attention on the battlefield and were all about protecting their masters.

Also wasn't SAM supposed to be a tank in FF11 like how ninja was going to be dps until it was found that they could both do opposite jobs better? (or more so that parry tanks didn't work well.)

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In FFXI SAM was an extremely good tank for endgame. Tachi Gekko and Shoha were used to hold hate on the hardest monsters. (They had huge attack bonuses)

SAM also had access to excellent PDT sets with the ability to change stances to pull hate or dodge/parry damage.

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Originally Posted by Resolute

I hope they save Samurai as a tank and don't introduce it as a dps in 3.0. I am not really interested in dark knight because I don't really like big weapon tanking. I don't enjoy the aesthetic of warrior for that reason. I was really excited about playing a samurai tank and would probably switch to it as my main if it happens.

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I'm sorry for laughing at you, but " I don't like big sword tanking". Real life samurai uses katanas. Katana = 2 handed sword. While keeping that in mind, I can see no other weapon choise for samurais, so I have no ideawhat you imagined samurais to use. Unless in FFXI (Which I've never played) they used some other weapon of choise.

FFXI Samurai were best with Great Katana. But good with Spears and Bows also.

Chalk me up as another person that definitely wants SAM to be a real tank this time around. SAM as a DPS never made much sense, just like NIN tanking said above.

The size of it aren't meant for taking damage.

Samurai better be a tank because its the one class that I look forward to the most in seeing in the game.