Samurai & Red Mage cross skills

[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.