Samurai

[Underdog2204]

Would be a wasted slot with DRK already being a 2h sword user. The DRG armor set is currently just one, so they could add it to that category like they did with MCH to Archer/Bard.

Possibly, still betting on it though xD

They could just aswell add a different tank armor type and katana weapons for it.

Let's face it, as it stands atm it would not be the strangest design choice they have made lol.

[Ferrasper]

Possibly, still betting on it though xD

They could just aswell add a different tank armor type and katana weapons for it.

Let's face it, as it stands atm it would not be the strangest design choice they have made lol.

Maybe, but I highly doubt it. I would like to see a ranged tank instead with it being the Puppet Master.

[Underdog2204]

Maybe, but I highly doubt it. I would like to see a ranged tank instead with it being the Puppet Master.

All physcial ranged are gonna get regen abilites and become this pseudo support style thing with a renamed GB/WM. Magical ranged have yet to be typecast, but I'm sure it's gonna happen to them.

Not that I wouldn't like something like what you said... But the recent jobs have kinda left me thinking that SE is starting to run out of idea's when it comes to designing new ones.

Ofc it would be great for them to prove me wrong, but I'm not holding my breath just yet.

[ChazNatlo]

Not that I wouldn't like something like what you said... But the recent jobs have kinda left me thinking that SE is starting to run out of idea's when it comes to designing new ones.

Likely it has less to do with them not having ideas, but rather it just being easier to balance classes that are similar. The ability to maneuver around mechanics easily regardless of whether the loss of that ability is what hurt certain classes or not is an extra factor that would need to be taken into consideration when balancing the classes. The addition of casting times to maintain maximized DPS helps mitigate that factor. Having similar support also means that the two "Support" classes have less distinction to figure out when balancing.

On topic, I'm uncertain if I care about DPS or Tank Samurai ((Tank skill, take all damage to your clothes and hair tie)). I would like someone to share basic armour with Dragoon though.

[Malevicton]

Maybe, but I highly doubt it. I would like to see a ranged tank instead with it being the Puppet Master.

I really don't understand what kind of mechanics people have in mind when they talk about ranged tanks.

I mained a Powertech tank in swtor for quite a while, which was often advertised as a ranged tank, and is often referred to when the topic is brought up. But it wasn't a ranged tank. It was a melee tank that happened to also have some ranged abilities. Your core enmity rotation still required you to be in melee, and if you went the dps spec it revolved around melee moves as well.

I don't really understand how you could maintain being ranged as a tank without the mechanics getting really weird.

[Shiro--Tsubasa]

I really don't understand what kind of mechanics people have in mind when they talk about ranged tanks.

I mained a Powertech tank in swtor for quite a while, which was often advertised as a ranged tank, and is often referred to when the topic is brought up. But it wasn't a ranged tank. It was a melee tank that happened to also have some ranged abilities. Your core enmity rotation still required you to be in melee, and if you went the dps spec it revolved around melee moves as well.

I don't really understand how you could maintain being ranged as a tank without the mechanics getting really weird.

I could see beast master being a ranged tank, but this is a topic of samurai not what makes a good range tank, so i won't say much more on that. I honestly want to see SAM as a dps. We are lacking in the 2-hand dps department since more of them are tanks already.