Why samurai is much more possible as a dps than you think

[Welsper59]

you and me both, i think blu would make a better tank than rdm any day, esp for lore sake and how easilly it could be fit in to this game, despite breaking some of the tradition

To me, it always comes down to how a story treats the job/class. Looking at XI as an example, BLU was regarded as "Immortals", a group of elite guard directly serving royalty (Empress in XI's case). Assassins, scouts, and a one-man army, all rolled into a single BLU Immortal. Easy to see them as both tank and DPS. If the story were to just make them more like some generic powerful mage that kills people, it'd probably just be seen as DPS lol.

So yeah, like I said, for me it just comes down to how the specific game treats the story pertaining to them.