Samurai & Red Mage cross skills

[Xlantaa]

It doesnt matter what they do. There will be alot of angry ppl once redmage is released. Please look forward to it.
Samurai should be a deeps just like dark knight should of been. Something else should have been a tank... like a berserker or something (ffv Great hammer weilder). With this dev team wanting to keep everything different from ffxi, in before samurai weilds Tenseiga and you attack people with it to heal/revive them

THe Berserk is the Warrior, they just change the name, even has a skill called Berserk. And they should be a DPS class. Samurai suits more to be a tank, since they use heavy armour, and the samurai code say they must fight with honor, face to face enemies, and not attack from behind or shadows, like the ninjas. It has much more sense a Samurai tank than DPS. I know FFXI samurai was DPS, but I still think suits more the tank class. Auron form FFX is a Samurai, and he is like a tank, having provoke skill on his sphere grid area, high base HP and cover / sentinel skills.

[Mycow8me]

THe Berserk is the Warrior, they just change the name, even has a skill called Berserk. And they should be a DPS class. Samurai suits more to be a tank, since they use heavy armour, and the samurai code say they must fight with honor, face to face enemies, and not attack from behind or shadows, like the ninjas. It has much more sense a Samurai tank than DPS. I know FFXI samurai was DPS, but I still think suits more the tank class. Auron form FFX is a Samurai, and he is like a tank, having provoke skill on his sphere grid area, high base HP and cover / sentinel skills.

Samurais dont use heavy armor, it restricts their motion and attacks, at most they use chain link.

True Warrior poses alot of similarities to berserker true. Could be what they did. I wish they would rename warrior to berserker and give warrior the dps role i wish it had then.

[karateorangutang]

Samurais dont use heavy armor, it restricts their motion and attacks, at most they use chain link.

Actually, Samurai used a version of lamellar armor. It was indeed lighter than the plate armor of the European knight, but still pretty heavy by armor standards, with a full set weighing somewhere between 40-60 lbs. That's quite a bit of weight to be running around a battlefield in and this is displayed in much of the art of samurai sprites in Final Fantasy.

That being said, from a gameplay standpoint, it makes more sense for Samurai to be included as a DPS at this point. The tank meta is still in flux and introducing another tank into the mix would only create massive imbalance. I bet we see SAM as a melee DPS, some type of melee caster (mystic knight or red mage), and a possibly a melee pet class (beastmaster... complete with whip I hope).

[Fevelle]

Actually, Samurai used a version of lamellar armor. It was indeed lighter than the plate armor of the European knight, but still pretty heavy by armor standards, with a full set weighing somewhere between 40-60 lbs. That's quite a bit of weight to be running around a battlefield in and this is displayed in much of the art of samurai sprites in Final Fantasy.

That being said, from a gameplay standpoint, it makes more sense for Samurai to be included as a DPS at this point. The tank meta is still in flux and introducing another tank into the mix would only create massive imbalance. I bet we see SAM as a melee DPS, some type of melee caster (mystic knight or red mage), and a possibly a melee pet class (beastmaster... complete with whip I hope).

If they add 3 DPS classes, you can say goodbye to Duty Finder for, at least, 6 months.

[karateorangutang]

If they add 3 DPS classes, you can say goodbye to Duty Finder for, at least, 6 months.

If they add a tank class then the whole endgame meta will be turned on it's head too. Unless they bring the tanks more in line with each other before then, which is plausible considering the 3.2 adjustments. BST could be a really neat tank with the ability to shed hate onto a bet through positionals, etc.

Same could be said of healer too... unless they decided to just throw classes to the wayside. FFXI PUP... I'm looking at you.