@Naoki Yoshida-> Make Samurai a Tank class!

[Greedalox]

So to make it fair,

I'm not a fan of the idea of SAM being a tank, but I'm having trouble with the concept of throwing Asians a bone out of "fairness". I don't think it's really running through a lot of heads that SAM being a dps is racially unfair?

[MisterLucy]

If you want Sam to be a dps what would they make as the tank job then.

[MisterLucy]

I'm not a fan of the idea of SAM being a tank, but I'm having trouble with the concept of throwing Asians a bone out of "fairness". I don't think it's really running through a lot of heads that SAM being a dps is racially unfair?

To me War is a tank but it feel more like a dps. In the end I believe Sam will be the same.

[Greedalox]

To me War is a tank but it feel more like a dps. In the end I believe Sam will be the same.

I don't think it'll be a tank, pretty sure I recall Yoshi P saying he'd prefer SAM to be a dps. No source though so don't quote me on it.

[Subucnimorning]

I don't think it'll be a tank, pretty sure I recall Yoshi P saying he'd prefer SAM to be a dps. No source though so don't quote me on it.

I can't picture SAM as tank given the role in previous FF games, that would just be weird...although do we really need, yet, another melee dps?

[Greedalox]

I can't picture SAM as tank given the role in previous FF games, that would just be weird...although do we really need, yet, another melee dps?

Do we really need anything, by that standard?

All that's left is flavour, which additional classes/races tend to bring moreso than actual necessity to a paradigm.

[MisterLucy]

I don't think it'll be a tank, pretty sure I recall Yoshi P saying he'd prefer SAM to be a dps. No source though so don't quote me on it.

Saying he would like vs doing is 2 difference things.

I just see a ton of other dps jobs they could pick from because the tank picking is from a very small list.

Drk and pld = same with different res
War and ?? = power house dps tanks

So whatever job they pick for tank would make sense to be a high dps tank.

[Greedalox]

Saying he would like vs doing is 2 difference things.

I'm pretty sure that his foresight to adding SAM and his concept as a director deserves a little more credit than whimsically tossing it aside.

[MisterLucy]

I'm pretty sure that his foresight to adding SAM and his concept as a director deserves a little more credit than whimsically tossing it aside.

Don't get me wrong I see Sam being in 4.0 I just don't see it being a dps like he wanted. I see him playing it smart and going as a tank Sam vs dps Sam.

Ppl wanted drk to be a dps but it was smarter to make it a tank.