Samurai Job = DPS Job

[Radacci]

If they added NIN, then what's the problem of adding SAM? unless SAM comes from somewhere else than Doma...Since Doma is Japanese style, then it would make perfect sense to add SAM as well
It's silly excuse not to add SAM, just cause of the theme of Heavensward...they say Heavensward has a dark theme...well, what's so bright and happy about SAM?
DRK is tank, SAM is DPS, so why would DRK interfere with adding SAM? from this interview it almost sounds like DRK will be the only job added, since they couldn't add SAM, cause of DRK?
They should totally add SAM in expansion; actually considering Domans already being here, it should already been added, so adding it in expansion, will already be *later*

SAM as DD, is as it should be...it would have been surprising if it was any other way.
I'm a bit sad they are still only on the stage: something to consider for the future...since ppl have been requesting SAM, since they added Jobs...

[Mardel]

If they added NIN, then what's the problem of adding SAM? unless SAM comes from somewhere else than Doma...Since Doma is Japanese style, then it would make perfect sense to add SAM as well
It's silly excuse not to add SAM, just cause of the theme of Heavensward...they say Heavensward has a dark theme...well, what's so bright and happy about SAM?
DRK is tank, SAM is DPS, so why would DRK interfere with adding SAM? from this interview it almost sounds like DRK will be the only job added, since they couldn't add SAM, cause of DRK?
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SAM as DD, is as it should be...it would have been surprising if it was any other way.
I'm a bit sad they are still only on the stage: something to consider for the future...since ppl have been requesting SAM, since they added Jobs...

Couldn't agree more. In fact this turns me away from the expansion, I was completely expecting them to go ahead and add samurai as well because... well we need someone to share a similar gear style w/ dragoon. Plus Ninja is already here so it is like, "surely samurai is next!"

[Agrotc]

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I think it's more that the jobs introduced in Heavensward are all probably going to be related to Ishgard itself except for possibly anything MSK related.
As for DRK fitting more it's probably because it's Dark KNIGHT and Ishgard is the only place we've seen in Eorzea to be using something considered as knights and the aesthetic as we've seen of Ishgard has all been very stereotypical medieval Europe in terms of Aesthetic.

[EdwinLi]

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Well Samurai is more about the Far East and Rogue/Ninja was introduced to fit into the lore on how members of a Ninja Village moved into Eorzea after escaping the Far East.

They are most likely waiting for a proper time to introduce a Lore reason for the arrival of SAM which can either be sometime in 3.X era, 4.0, or when ever they see fit to start going deeper into Far East lore or the update that give us access into the Far East.

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As for the idea of SAM chance of being a Tank it possible since the original plan was to make SAM the Tank Job of 3.0 but then they switched it to Dark knight.

However, we must consider the game also lacks another DPS Job that can use Mail Armor since currently Dragoon is the only Job that uses Mail Armor.

Every other DPS Job currently been slapped into Leather Armor or Cloth Armor which is common considering FF series has a lot of DPS Jobs that is based around them being Leather or cloth armor users.

SAM being a DPS Job is also possible since it can also fit into being another DPS Mail Armor user but can also be a new Tank Job to add another Tank into the game.

Either way it a 50/50 for what SAM will be until farther announcements.