SAMURAI SHOWDOWN

[ShinMetsu]

Right as I mentioned in previous posts, my opinion is biased but I will stand by it, I thought over a Red Mage tank as well and think that would be awesome so I can agree there, but this is a SAM thread so I'm trying to stay on topic here. Anyways to your point about my selfish
opinion about WAR? Your so wrong in thinking I'm selfish because of that... Melee can switch between the melee in a raid environment, ranged can switch between the ranged, "main tank" can switch between pld/drk, "main healer" whm/ast, casters blm/smner... Sch and War are essential jobs to raiding,idm if the new tank is a war rep SAM or not but I love SAM so I stated my opinion I would like it to become the new tank, my points stand about DPS opinions being pretty selfish and feeling insulted by people thinking we don't need anymore tanks, was more of a reaction from thinking this game only needs 3 tanks.

The lack in variety for Off-tanks is a valid argument, i'll give you as much. Though i don't see it as pressing.
WARs actually make pretty nifty Main tanks too, and DRK make pretty damn good Off tanks.
Those limitations are created by player choice really, although developers are at fault for making Storm's Eye so valuable, making a WAR in every party a no-brainer really.

On the other matter, i'll have to disagree.
This is a SAM thread, yes. But considering what other jobs they could introduce alongside SAM is too big a factor to ignore in my opinion.
Which gives room for more interesting concepts for tanking. (I haven't seen anyone write up an interesting SAM tank concept yet, maybe someone should try)

Don't get me wrong btw, i'll be happy either way actually.
I've been tanking in ffxiv for 5 years :P And i love SAM pretty much more than any other job.
So i wouldn't mind if i got to play SAM a lot more with it being a tank, but i'd be sad because i have this image of SAM being a 'bringer of destruction'.
Seeing it have tank damage would totally destroy that image for me.
Edit: Oh, and yeah. It seems pretty boring to get more of the same tanking stuff. But hope that someone can present a nice SAM tank concept that looks appealing.