@Naoki Yoshida-> Make Samurai a DPS class!!!

[XSamsaraLotusX]

we dont even know if we gating a sam. so fart we geting spiderman

[AutoWhit]

He already said if it was added it would be a Tank.



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No he said it would be tank.

If you could link something, anything, where he officially says SAM will be a tank that'd be great. Because, as far as I'm aware that was never officially stated.

[Vaer]

IIRC during the Heavensward set of fanfests they were thinking about adding SAM but they didn't think it fit as a tank so they went with DRK instead. That was a long time ago though.

[XSamsaraLotusX]

they didnt think sam fit in Heavensward not as a tank.

[Wolf_Heartnet]

So with Red Mage, we finally have a sword DPS. I am ok with this. Even if Samurai doesn't become a DPS, i finally have a sword DPS to play as so i'm happy.

That said, we have a 1-handed sword dps and it would be cool to have Samurai as our 2-handed sword dps. At this point however, I don't mind if it becomes tank or not since i have Red Mage.

Btw, i main tank atm and prefer Samurai to be DPS.

People saying that the majority of people is DPS so ofcourse majority will vote on samurai dps is like saying everyone is going to vote White Mage to be a dps. I really don't think the majority of the players are going to vote White Mage to be a dps. I can't predict what the masses will do tho...

What I think would be interesting is if we got Blue Mage to be a tank. Would be cool and they could Dual Wield aswell (Which is what shippuu wants i think?)

[Kyuuen]

He already said if it was added it would be a Tank.



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No he said it would be tank.

No, no he didn't.

Exact words from the interview. If it were Samurai, he felt DPS would fit better. As a Tank, Shogun would be better fitting. Unless there's another article I'm unaware of..

http://www.cgmagonline.com/2015/03/1...-with-yoshi-p/

Open article, Ctrl-F, type Samurai for the TL;DR.

[Radacci]

Oh my God are you serious? Red mage already a DPS, yet you want ANOTHER DPS? Seems so unbiased, no really. The problem is that we need a viable tank role and Samurai as a Tank is the best option: heavy armor, good for parry etc. And is appealing for the MAJORITY (I said majority, so no not all tanks but a good some who actually main tank) want something nice. How many more DPS jobs do u want? Fk Tanking if yoshida isn't going to give love to tanks, might aswell go to DPS and yolo.

majority of ppl are dps, so since the majority of ppl like sam and dps, it would annoy the majority of players if they made SAM into tank, because only a minority of players enjoy tanking.

Shouldn't be, because it wouldn't be balanced.

Nobody is gonna tank up old jobs to level others because everyone is gonna be playing new jobs.

no they won't many ppl will cap their mains first.
there won't be a single SAM/RDM in stormblood areas for the majority of first day, while many ppl will do the MSQ with their lv 60 mains; it will take a few days before the new jobs start invading the new areas, en masse.
Since we're getting cross-server PF, you can very easily find a PT for whatever SB dungeon, with any job.

[Empress]

As someone who got out of the tanking scene because of stress and the lack of actually feeling accomplished playing my damn class in raid/statics, I honestly feel like they should rework tanks in general to actually make them more appealing to the casual and elite populous. The Class itself is boring and not at all refreshing or satisfying to play.

You either

A: Get Yelled at to Oblivion if you screw up once
B: Get Yelled at for Not DPSing Enough
C: Trying to pull a huge amount just to die because of lack of heals
D: Trying to pull a huge amount and dying due to random dps being low because lets be real: Most DPS are garbage, and throwing this into the DPS cesspool will only increase that.

At the moment, neither tank or dps would be a good idea for this class period until The Full Reveal of the NEW COMBAT SYSTEM!!!! *Sparkles* which honestly im worried its not even gonna be that big of a difference.

[EdwinLi]

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Watch as people complain Red Mage does not use their sword enough and they treat sword as a secondary weapon due to prioritising the Staff Sword function more for long range combat over actual swordplay.

On that note:

Red Mage is a Range DPS so I am curious how will it function in battle if the main attacks are focused on casting spells and the sword attacks are Magic Slash Waves and short "charge in attack then jump back to position" skills

[CaedemSanguis]

Its dangerous to not make a new tank classes, i mean many tanks will getting bored of playing the same class or feeling abandoned, so there will be a huge lack of tank, maybe dps will wait 4h for a dungeon