Why do people want SAM to be a tank!?

[Shippuu]

They have to ditch the tank, DPS, heal set idea for tanks to retain their unique look for this though. Demon Hunter gear in WoW still looks like Demon Hunter, and the Vengeance gets the same benefit from the Havoc DPS gearset.
This would be a good idea for SE to look into, it would be nice to retain your class image. I don't want my PLD/WAR/ whatever to look exactly like each other.

This is exactly why future tanks are likely to still share the same fending gear and overall appearance. There is already a lot of different armor classifications in FFXIV, making loot pools very cluttered, and so adding more is a bad idea. There's also a design benefit to tanks/healers sharing their armor which allows people who play those much needed roles to gear multiple tanks/healers. This gives them the freedom to switch tank/healer job fairly seamlessly (barring weapon).

Rather than cluttering the loot pools even more, a simple multi-glamour system would be easier and smarter to implement to solve the issue of tanks looking the same.

[NorthernLadMSP]

Samurai are awesome. Best DPS in single player FF.

So, people want Samurai because they want a class that easily does more DPS than any other DPS job?

Sorry, not trying to be sarcastic, but I've never played as Samurai in any FF game, so I have no clue what they are like (I know what a samurai in the real world is, just not how it translates to these games).

[myahele]

With RDM being a sword wielding-dps, I am seeing a SAM tank being more likely. In either case, I just hope they stop making any more sword-based jobs after SAM is released.

[Zojha]

In either case, I just hope they stop making any more sword-based jobs after SAM is released.

I wouldn't mind if they stopped it before that even. There's a wealth of weapons both practical and exotic out there to explore the creative potential of >.>

[bswpayton]

It's plenty of dps already tho

[Shippuu]

Samurai are awesome. Best DPS in single player FF.

Man those are some bad examples. For one, Auron is never actually referred to as a samurai, and his sphere grid contains such powerful offensive abilities like Guard, and Sentinel....Oops!

Also, ignoring the fact Type-0 was actually a multiplayer title...Jack may have had the highest strength of the characters, but he was built around guarding/counterattacking to do a lot of his damage. Moves that require him to be attacked first. Which role in FFXIV gets attacked the most? Oh yeah, tanks.

[SonyTriple]

Could you have at least not attached your signature if you wanted to be taken seriously?

Samurai/Shogun def needs to be a tank tho.

[SuperGandhi]

DPS doesn't need two new jobs while the others get squat.
I hope Samurai doesn't even get made, with as much of a Tank/DPS debate that's going on it's either gonna upset Tanks and Healers if DPS get 2 new jobs and they get nothing, or the greedy DPS get upset because they want more.

And since we know they aren't gonna be making 4+ classes, not everyone is gonna be happy in this scenario.

I'm sure I'll be staying WAR either way so I don't care that much. Just try an not be so damn greedy about it. Share the love, it's Xmas ain't it?

[Yeol]

Because getting 2 DPs is a bad idea.

[Derio]

Because dps is already getting a new job and tanks need more variety. We only had 2 to choose from before DRK showed up. Compare that to the options dps have