Samurai the next tank XD

[Lucke]

I have an idea for SAM. It sorta brings back skill chains. Each of the SAM abilities combo off each other and whatever cobo you do will have an effect. Example:

Let's say SAM has 5 weaponskills, A, B, C, D, and E. They can combo any of the together for an effect. Example:

A+B inflicts slow. A+C Inflicts haste on SAM. A+B+C inflicts slow on the enemy and haste on the SAM. D + E inflicts poison. A + D inflicts paralyze, so A + D + E inflicts Paralyze and poison.

Each buff only lasts 6 - 7 secs so you will constantly have to reapply and only have enough time to put on like, 2 effects max.

Then again, this sounds alot like RDM that doesn't use spells. I dunno, just throwing stuff at the wall, seeing what sticks.

[Khalithar]

Well, you can't deny that elements of AST are similar to Time Mages. Arrow is similar to Haste, their Time Dilation and Gravity are Time Mage spells as well.
So, yes, they are similar. Maybe not as much as you'd like, though.

You also learn in the AST storyline that the most powerful of their number have the ability to temporarily stop time itself. AST is most likely the closest we'll ever get to time mage.

[MPNZ]

I'm hoping that Samurai will literally be able to switch between being an actual DPS and a tank with it's stances. And, just have it split off into two jobs at level 30, like, Shogun for the tank and Ronin as the DPS.

[DBelmont]

I expect Samurai to be a dps with original mechanics, slashing dmg and no positioning. It is exactly the concept that people need to be added in the game for a dps plus it was teased to be a dps from Yoshi.

[FallenWings]

If we're talking about parry tanking, I think RDM would be most suitable based on the idea that it would wield a Rapier and possibly a parrying dagger. Nothing parries better than that combo and having two weapons to parry multitudes of enemies? Bonus! Since fencing is alot of thrusting I'd imagine that it would be mostly piercing damage based. I don't know alot about FF history but I would assume it'd use White Magic to mitigate physical attacks (Stone Armour?) and Black Magic to mitigate magical attacks (Apocatastasis from BLM was the line of thought for this).

But yeah Rapier and Parrying Dagger. Get on it!

As for Samurais I'm of the same opinion that there are already enough Sword classes in general so perhaps they would use Naginatas instead as they historically would prefer? Would be the first Polearm type class for the sake of diversity. But it doesn't really matter too much since this is a fantasy game and people should be allowed to have their glorious nippon steel. It wouldn't be too far fetched for it to be the first class that uses a multitude of weapons instead: Main: Naginata/Bow, Second: Katana/Bow. In regards to whether or not it should be a Tank or DPS, I'm sure most of us would imagine them to be akin to knight's or other types of heavily armoured warriors that fight their foes head on in glorious combat. So it goes without saying that they'd be more ideal as tanks(the guys who fight at the front) rather than DPS(them dirty backstabbing ninjas y'know?). This is all just flavour preference and I wouldn't personally care if they were katana wielding DPS since I can see the appeal in it.

[CookieMonsta]

How many people are hoping that samurai becomes the next tank?

What would seperate a samurai tank from the other tanks already in the game ?

If you want the world to burn...

[Rhodkr]

I don't know if this has been mentioned since I haven't read through the posts, so bare with me. I would love it if the Samarai was a tank, specifically, a 'Counter' tank. I means we have PLD as a mitigation tank, WAR as a damage tank and DRK as a PArry tank, so a tank that can return damage dealt to them would be kinda neat.

It could work by capping the countered damage to a certain maximum number and having it scale with the tanks vit.

[Reynhart]

I don't know if this has been mentioned since I haven't read through the posts, so bare with me. I would love it if the Samarai was a tank, specifically, a 'Counter' tank. I means we have PLD as a mitigation tank, WAR as a damage tank and DRK as a PArry tank, so a tank that can return damage dealt to them would be kinda neat.

It was

If it was a tank, though, I'd like something like mitigate+counter kind of tank. Several combos that put you in a counter stance for a few seconds, one for physical skill, one for magical skill, one for simple auto-attacks (Probably the enmity combo).
And you have to maintain these stances to keep your mitigation, while anticipating the stance you needed few GCD prior.

I think we both like the Samurai from Bravely

[MagiusNecros]

To be fair all the Job Classes in BDFF work as intended and make sense as well.

[Tanathya]

To be fair all the Job Classes in BDFF work as intended and make sense as well.

BD's dark knight is amazing as well. So many toys revolving around one's HP, as it has always been.