Quote Originally Posted by Claire_Pendragon View Post
Thats assuming SAM attacks enemies from behind as DPS.
Attacking from the front then? Time to get booty slammed by cleaves and additional frontal cone AoEs.

Remove cleaves to cater to SAM? Positioning for tanks getting nerfed to make gameplay more braindead?

Be a DPS that is hated by healers next to BLM? Give it virtually no useful utility but high DPS for this higher risk gameplay? NIN+DRG meta prolonged?

Let's give our infamously horrible DF pugs a class that needs to dodge frequent untelegraphed cleaves when they already have trouble dodging telegraphed AoEs with huge orange markers.

Have skills that mitigate damage? Lose some DPS skill slots and effectively turn it into... *gasp* a tank? But worse because a real tank doesn't need to hit the front to deal it's full damage?

Have no positionals? Release patch NIN?
inb4 SwordMage with melee range cast bar mechanics *shudder*

I truly hope we aren't suggesting they become some kind of front positional DPS because... That is what Tanks are.

I guess Cover would have some miniscule use here. A treat to the PLDs? l0l

WHM: Stop getting cleaved!
SAM: But I need to for my DPS
WHM: I'm running out of mana!
BLM: I need a heal too
DRG: Raise please
WHM has gone offline.