SAMURAI SHOWDOWN

[DWolfwood]

have you seen any movies or anime, where samurai, is anything else than "DPS"?

I actually started this post by referencing Log Horizon, you should watch it sometime.

not every samurai was heavy armored, most of them was using chain mail

If you could find a single instance of them using chainmail, I'd like to see it. Usually their armor was woven scales, the strongest being iron scales and plates.

Anyhoo.

To the people saying that SAM should be a DPS oriented OT, like WAR, this presents a major problem because WAR is not an OT because it makes a bad MT. It's OT because PLD/DRK make horrible OTs. WAR is actually the strongest MT as well. They need to make all tanks as strong as WAR, not just SAM.

To the people saying SAM as a tank would be boring and have the same niche as DRK, I think you underestimate how many creative ways they could go about making a Tank class. Parrying is not the main mechanic of DRK, Dark Arts and managing MP is. Stacks are the main mechanic of WAR, and PLD is intended to be straight forward. The way they design a class is around how it should play first, and then they design the look of it (i.e. DRK vs SAM) and incorporate it.

To the people saying we need a Mage tank, we have DRK. It revolves around MP management already, so making another tank revolve around that would be just as redundant as another 2-handed weapon tank. Plus, I'm not sure you've thought out the defense aspect when you say that they could just cast spells. Surely you realize how under-powered this would be as time went on. They'd have to either give lighter clothing the same defense as heavy armor or rework defense entirely.