My take on Samurai as a tank

[Velhart]

why do people say OT like it's such a real thing. many fights both tanks tank equally and PLD has defensive and attack stance too. all tanks SAM or not need to have MT and OT utility in a Full Party.

OT is a real thing. The OT has multiple roles in a fight. Either they need to grab the adds, perform a certain mechanic, or help switch with MT when they have too many stacks. WAR excels in this because they have a lot of utility to deal damage in their offensive stance compared to PLD. It isn't to say a WAR can't MT or a PLD can't OT, they are capable of those roles also, but when you are meeting strict DPS checks, you usually want the one who can bring a little more damage in the OT position. Again it is a each to their own thing. I believe Samurai should be given strong offensive measures similar to WAR.

Didn't SE mention that parry is going to be reworked in 4.0?

They said they were looking into changing how parry works by possibly 3.5 or when the expansion hits.

It would be neat if Samurai used parrying to a strong extent. Then again, WAR is suppose to be kind of like that also, but parrying stat building is pointless right now.