SAMURAI SHOWDOWN

[EdwinLi]

Keeping the tanks as slashing damage is actually a smart move from a design standpoint and helps with SE's focus on making every combination viable.

That is not a smart move because it limits them on what they can have as a Tank to a small margin of classes that can only use swords or axes or whatever weapon that cause slash damage only. This synergy you call it is nothing more than a limit so they don't have to go outside the norm they just setup. It also has a limit to how many veriation they can have before it is just a repeat of the samething with just slight change such as how Dark Knight ended up being a damage mitigation Job like Paladin while warrior remains it own gameplay as a HP focused Tank.

Hammer also has been used by 2 well known Jobs being Berserker and Viking in FF games