Samurai coming?

[Taliph]

They could always add a simple skill like "Cleric Stance" which switches your attributes and turns a tank to DPS/DPS to tank similar to CNJ/WHM. That would be the easiest way to do it. Swap VIT and STR.

Too add, soulstones could have stuff like "swap enmity in skills for small dps boost"

[Zanmato]

To be fair about the Samurai speculation, they have been talking about Samurais in more than 1 occasion. For example, during the Lore segment, they, out of nowhere, mention Banri Oda and his descendant Nobunaga Oda, who was... a Samurai.
They don't mention Samurai, but they absolutely had the plans to hint to it, or else they would not have the picture of Nobunaga Oda. So, this was planned.

Soken's folder named Samura(i?) may be a coincidence, or not. However the fact that they have been hinting at it is definitely something to take into consideration. Keep your eyes and ears open TODAY, it seems likely that they will drop something else...

...like THAL'S BLOODY BALLS!

Fernehalwes (Koji Fox) is fucking awesome. Huge fan of the guy. Really cool guy.

(Copy/Paste from my previous post in another thread made yesterday.)

[Starlord]

As long as my SAM can deal large amounts of damage then personally, I wouldn't mind a counter tank.

[Tonkra]

They could always add a simple skill like "Cleric Stance" which switches your attributes and turns a tank to DPS/DPS to tank similar to CNJ/WHM. That would be the easiest way to do it. Swap VIT and STR.

the question is why i should play pld then who only can be tank^^

[Ramath]

The bottom line is, at the moment of writing this post, there is no "Official" announcement of either Samurai or Dark Knight.

However, it has been very clear that Yoshi enjoys his "accidental" leaks. It's fun to finally get to tell what you've been working on. Also, it's fun to get the hype train chuggin' for the next Fan Fests.

As far as both SAM and DRK, both have very strong evidence that they are, in fact, on their way. But you have to be able to separate current fact from evidence. A smart man would be putting money on the existence of both Samurai and Dark Knight as near-future jobs.

As to what roles these jobs will fill (Tank/DPS), that has yet to be mentioned in any way shape or form, leaving us with nothing but speculation. Yes, we have past games to look at, and yes, everyone has logical reasoning as to why they can be one or the other. In the end, everyone has an opinion/desire one way or another, and as such, our 'predictions' are heavily influenced by those desires and opinions.

Samurai has always been my favored class in every FF game that possessed them. DPS is the role near and dear to my heart. I would give anything for it to be a DPS. But, if I'm honest, I truly think it will be our next tank.

[Rustyhagun]

As long as my SAM can deal large amounts of damage then personally, I wouldn't mind a counter tank.

I'm with you on this. As I don't mind tanking in this game, Paladin has been fun, messing with block builds. So if they made Samurai a tank, and it gained aggro by dealing heavy dmg, and counter moves. that would be great, and I wouldn't care that it isn't a dps class.

[Toodles]

Marauder > Dark Knight (dps)
Musketeer > Chemist (heal)
Musketeer > Gun Mage (dps)
Spell Fencer > Samurai (tank)
Spell Fencer > Red Mage (dps)

My guesses.

[RyuDragnier]

Marauder > Dark Knight (dps)
Musketeer > Chemist (heal)
Musketeer > Gun Mage (dps)
Spell Fencer > Samurai (tank)
Spell Fencer > Red Mage (dps)

My guesses.

Yoshi-P said he wasn't fond of the way SCH and SMN ended up with their split, so we may no longer see splits from classes into jobs. They may just give each job a base class, or even start making Jobs unlocked from multiple Jobs being leveled (with the new Job starting at level 1).

And who else hopes that the Samurai when added will be a counter tank, with their main source of enmity being countering enemy moves for a set % of damage being thrown back at them?

[Edeline]

Dark knight have been hinted as job, while samurai was just found in a music folder

They're not officially revealing any new job info, they're just giving subtle hints, and they could have sneaked a samurai hint in a music folder to let players think.

[Starlord]

They're not officially revealing any new job info, they're just giving subtle hints, and they could have sneaked a samurai hint in a music folder to let players think.

They did say "Look for hints of Job classes at the various panels"

SAM- Music file
DRK- Batman T-shirt ( and His Favorite Movie from Batman, The " Dark Knight") <---- This one is more obvious