@Naoki Yoshida-> Make Samurai a Tank class!

[shao32]

If this would be Samurai, it just should be a Tank class!
https://imgur.com/D4kJRvU

That Guy is zenos yae valgus, the garlean ruler of ala migho and son of the actual emperor but yeah he looks like he use a katana

[Madepossible]

That Guy is zenos yae valgus, the garlean ruler of ala migho and son of the actual emperor but yeah he looks like he use a katana

Shao I think we actually might get Samurai as a tank as it blends in so well.
1. Second high damage off tank makes the balance between the 4 tanks complete:
Paladin -> the ultimate defensive tank.
Dark Knight -> also a good main tank, blood weapon can be used with grit off from now and then but Na/EU basically made PLD and DRK the main tanks.
Warrior -> high damaging off tank with crazy damage compared to the two other tanks.
Samurai -> high damaging off tank just like Warrior.
So that sums it up: 2 Main tanks and 2 Off tanks: balance.
I also believe it will be like this: Samurai will be the new tank, Red Mage will be the new DPS job and we might get a 4th Healer.

[jameseoakes]

Shao I think we actually might get Samurai as a tank as it blends in so well.
1. Second high damage off tank makes the balance between the 4 tanks complete:
Paladin -> the ultimate defensive tank.
Dark Knight -> also a good main tank, blood weapon can be used with grit off from now and then but Na/EU basically made PLD and DRK the main tanks.
Warrior -> high damaging off tank with crazy damage compared to the two other tanks.
Samurai -> high damaging off tank just like Warrior.
So that sums it up: 2 Main tanks and 2 Off tanks: balance.
I also believe it will be like this: Samurai will be the new tank, Red Mage will be the new DPS job and we might get a 4th Healer.

Or more likely we'll just see DRK and PLD marginalised in favour of higher DPS tanks by the community like we saw with PLD in 3.0/3.1

[Madepossible]

Or more likely we'll just see DRK and PLD marginalised in favour of higher DPS tanks by the community like we saw with PLD in 3.0/3.1

With all due respect, this game needs more Tanks and Healers to not jeopardize the state of the game. DPS ques take usually 20-30 min, hence when Ques as tank it's instantly. Square Enix needs to draw players and giving Samurai a Tanking class will appeal to more. If SAM was dps, how will this affect the que times? Ppl will be in que for hours like at the release of Ninja.

[Dzian]

With all due respect, this game needs more Tanks and Healers to not jeopardize the state of the game. DPS ques take usually 20-30 min, hence when Ques as tank it's instantly. Square Enix needs to draw players and giving Samurai a Tanking class will appeal to more. If SAM was dps, how will this affect the que times? Ppl will be in que for hours like at the release of Ninja.

could be 100 tank classes and 10 dps classes people would still be waiting for tanks..

the game needs more dps. specifically ranged physical dps that aren't casters.. because 50+ the game has zero of those.

why not make sam a ranged dps class XD. SAM/RNG in XI was a pretty awesome job.

[Madepossible]

could be 100 tank classes and 10 dps classes people would still be waiting for tanks..

the game needs more dps. specifically ranged physical dps that aren't casters.. because 50+ the game has zero of those.

why not make sam a ranged dps class XD. SAM/RNG in XI was a pretty awesome job.

Oh come on Dzian! That's the whole reason why Samurai, who is loved by many, should be a tank class so the DPS don't have to wait long for a dungeon que!! Also I think you should be happy with red mage to be honest:
DPS:

[Anzaman]

That's the whole reason why Samurai, who is loved by many, should be a tank class so the DPS don't have to wait long for a dungeon que!!

We'd have couple first weeks plenty of tanks, and once people would have leveled up.. they'd return back to DPS.

[Tint]

why not make sam a ranged dps class XD. SAM/RNG in XI was a pretty awesome job.

because people don't want samurai, they want a DD with a katana. not a tank, not a ranged, if you make samurai any other class than a katana DD, they will not bother playing it and will get really salty.

[KirigayaKazuto]

could be 100 tank classes and 10 dps classes people would still be waiting for tanks..

the game needs more dps. specifically ranged physical dps that aren't casters.. because 50+ the game has zero of those.

why not make sam a ranged dps class XD. SAM/RNG in XI was a pretty awesome job.

while samurai were technically trained to use naginata (dragoon) and bows (bard/archer) when you ask a random person what they imagine a samurai as the think Katana, would be odd if they went with anything else... besides if they add samurai ala katana style they better damn well add a sephiroth style masamune IDK if i have to buy it off the mogstation i will buy it for glam.

[Ariane]

could be 100 tank classes and 10 dps classes people would still be waiting for tanks..

the game needs more dps. specifically ranged physical dps that aren't casters.. because 50+ the game has zero of those.

why not make sam a ranged dps class XD. SAM/RNG in XI was a pretty awesome job.

SE seems to group all ranged DPS together. Duty finder works in trying to put one ranged with one melee DPS if it can. Yoshi-P has talked how they think caster and physical ranged will be grouped together for new cross class skill system.

We got 13 jobs. 3 healers, 3 tanks, 4 ranged DPS, and 3 melee DPS. That is one "too many" ranged DPS if SE wants a job role ratio at 1 tank to 1 healer to 1 melee DPS to 1 ranged DPS. A new melee DPS makes a lot more sense.