Quote Originally Posted by Kazrah View Post
I must be one of the only people who doesn't want samurai as the next job just because it'd look far too much like a dark knight (especially with the current doman gear) and--depending on what role it would come in as--play too much like a job we already have in this game.
A SAM tank could easily play unlike every other tank job that currently exists. More active blocking/parrying; more emphasis on reactionary techniques. Imagine a job that's actually encouraged to stand in AoEs to absorb and reflect damage.

Right now, among the three tank jobs, we currently don't have anything like that. I'd certainly enjoy a more active-defense style of play.

Quote Originally Posted by Kazrah View Post
I do agree that the next job should be a DoM. The only real issue with this though is that the top candidates for this (red mage and blue mage) are traditionally hybrids, which would be a lot harder to fit into a game where it's one role to one job.
RDM could easily fill a "supporty DPS" slot next to BRD and MCH with unique buffs of their own (kind of like Astrologian). They'd have access to both THM and CNJ cross-class skills, and would probably be the only other job to get access to Astral Fire/Umbral Ice, though the job would not be centered around it for obvious reasons. BLU, on the other hand, would definitely need to be a different flavor of DPS. Not traditional, no, but then, they kind of eschewed tradition when they made DRK tank to begin with...