Quote Originally Posted by Wobi View Post
For those of you out there that played FFT a Samurai was like a tank/DPS/mage all rolled into one. It would be interesting to see them bring that concept over to MMO form and somehow balance it. (minus breaking potentially breaking our weapons)
Tank DPS is usually balanced by making their DPS mid-tier and having their Defensive Cooldowns/oh shoot! buttons being mid-tier as well. Pre-RoK Berserker on EQ2 fit this, doing about the same DPS as a Swashbuckler back in the day, since it was an AoE heavy class like Swash, and their oh shoot! buttons had to be pretty well-timed.

Tank/DPS Hybrid could work if it is made to where it is only filling one role at a time, too. Forced Stance like they're making Astrologician do maybe? If you switch stances you cannot switch to the other mid-combat?.

Red Mage would be tricky. I feel like they could go with a duality, getting mid-tier heals and mid-tier nukes, a couple minor shields and the like to play off of any of the existing healers well. Maybe the "En-" line of spells that the Beastmen use to make their Autoattack potency based off of INT instead of STR.