Quote Originally Posted by silentwindfr View Post
i will be blunt, what is the goal of a Samurai?
protect him lord, yep... by killing the enemy. samurai spend them time to polish them technique for only one goal.... kill enemy before be killed. that why i think yoshida did think this will be better to have it into a dps. they are not knight, they are warrior that polish them blade for.... kill and only kill.

that said, we already have more than enough different tympe of tank with 2 hand. maybe time to add one dps with heavy weapon or maybe dual katana (even if it will be a ronin)
Origin of Samurai
c.1720-1730 Japanese, earlier noted samurafi: to serve, equivalent to sa- prefix + morafi watchfully wait (frequentative of mor- to guard)

Basically the root origin of the word means person of slight status who watchfully waits and guards.
Peasants → Grunts → Samurai → Daimyo → Shogun

Not really saying that Samurai can't be a DPS job, but the fact that people are saying they were killers is a bit inaccurate, they were retainers to the daimio (daimyo)

To further compound on this, the word samurai also stems from the variant saburai which means "to be in attendance, to serve"

Don't really sound like a super-soldier killer to me.

Anime has ruined the perception of what real samurai's did, and that is to defend their masters.