SAMURAI SHOWDOWN

[Tanathya]

Don't feel like Yoshida and his team pay no attention to what the players want. That's the whole reason why these forums exist in the first place.

Also, if they listened to every single thing we wanted, DRK would be a DPS right now.

They made a poll when Yoshida took over, and they didn't listen. What Ciri said just there is proof of that very same poll. So no, they don't really listen to the players, or they wouldn't be pulling the "PS3 limitations" excuse so often.

[DWolfwood]

They made a poll when Yoshida took over, and they didn't listen. What Ciri said just there is proof of that very same poll. So no, they don't really listen to the players, or they wouldn't be pulling the "PS3 limitations" excuse so often.

Getting way off topic here, but thanks to that poll we got SMN next with a new healer, then we got NIN, and they got an idea where of how to design the next new race, Au Ra. Players really wanted DRK too, so we got that as well.

Convince me why 2 or even 3 DPS jobs "From the East" is too many. After all, isn't 3 "Western" Tanks too many? Shouldn't Dark Knight have been a "Western" DPS because we already had 2 "Western" Tanks? This makes literally no sense.

You really gotta work on your reading comprehension man. Go back and look at the very first post in this thread and you'll see that I want a Samurai DPS and Tank.

Also Rogue/Ninja is never called Thief in FFXIV...so I'm not sure why you brought that up.

It's actually referred to it in the class quests, and they explain why they're not the "thieves" guild. That said, the reason I brought it up is because it was always referred to as "thief" in preliminary talks before the class was announced. Much like samurai now.

However based on common media portrayal etc.

You really gotta just give this up. lol

So again - is having all the "Western" DPS and Tanks too many "Western" DPS and Tanks? Why does the influence of the region in game or IRL matter /at all/?

Because people use the argument saying that tanks have too many "swords" or "already have a 2h sword," so my question is "would a sam tank and dps be too much considering there are already two eastern themed dps?" If the answer is no, that dps can accommodate it, then I ask those people to please like my first post so that we can gain traction on this idea and bring two samurai to the game.

[Krissey]

You really gotta work on your reading comprehension man. Go back and look at the very first post in this thread and you'll see that I want a Samurai DPS and Tank.

I mean I understand. My reading comprehension is above average. I'm just being realistic. There's only going to be one Samurai. It's only going to have one role. Based on common portrayal it makes more sense for it to kill things with it's Katana than to be a tank soaking hits. Whether it is a tank, a DPS, a healer, or never comes out doesn't matter to me. I'm more than happy with Dragoon, Warrior, Astrologian etc... I play and enjoy every role. Just basing it off the general "conception" of the Samurai if you asked a common MMO player "Based on Anime, TV, and other portrayals does it make more sense for a Samurai to be DPS or Tank" they would probably answer DPS.

Matter of fact if you want my "real" take on it: I would rather not get Samurai at all. I would prefer more magic users. I would prefer other jobs in general. When I think of Final Fantasy the samurai job does not immediately come to mind.

[Aaliyahrose]

If they were to rework parry, They would either...

A. Have to rework the Parry formula.
B. Make SAM the Absolute best Parry tank - better far and away better than DRK
C. Give SAM an abitily to proc more parries than a DRK can

If B were the option... you would see something like 100+ Parry on your Katana...

It cant be on your gear...because tanks would end up sharing the same gear...
and that is not reworking the parry formula lol.