Ideas for Samurai

[Shiro--Tsubasa]

I think it would be cool to make samurai into a melee job that has cast times. It would be a new and yet challenging play-style that would use a combo system similar to say a ninja with cast times added to them along with some instant ogcds and long cooldown abilities. When i think of samurai I think of hard hitting precise strikes with build up. I think cast times would give it that feel.

[Ryaz]

I think it would be cool to make samurai into a melee job that has cast times. It would be a new and yet challenging play-style that would use a combo system similar to say a ninja with cast times added to them along with some instant ogcds and long cooldown abilities. When i think of samurai I think of hard hitting precise strikes with build up. I think cast times would give it that feel.

I'm not sure how well cast times would work with a melee class. Melee has it even worse than ranged when it comes to having to dodge stuff and cast times could spell doom for them. That's why they have positionals instead.

I could picture samurai using a system similar to mudras-- they have a few different skills and depending on how they're used, it unlocks a more powerful, combo finisher. Or they could have it so attack fill a bar that unlocks the skills-- kind of like a mini lb bar. They could OGCD abilities that fill the bar faster or something.

[Duelle]

Here's something I was asked to type up for an old SAM suggestion thread.

DRK was given some of the thingsI sort of wanted to see on SAM. With the DPS thing in mind, aesthetically you could base it on fast and effective use of skills (a reason I'd want Rurouni Kenshin to be the inspiration for SAM like Naruto was the inspiration for NIN and Berserk was the inspiration for DRK). Combos could be abilities split into categories, with the caveat that one skill has a unique effect on the next. Alternatively, you could focus SAM on the sword spirit thing that Final Fantasy Tactics toyed with for a bit, though I fear it may end up being mechanically similar to SMN's Bahamut trance.