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

[AlphaFox]

only a clothed version of sam, a armored version looks more tank for hem but meaby call it shogun instead.

I mean, it may work if it turns out SAM can be DPS or Tank mainly in title change alone and the skills abilities are retooled only to be what the stone is set as. Kinda like SMN/SCH but in a way that the skills do not change and level together. Your basic DPS rotation becomes your basic hate rotation and then on, some DPS increasing skills become Defensive based on soulstone. I dunno honestly, I mean I wouldn't argue if they did a Shogun + Samurai for two different roles but seems unlikely to me to have 2 similar named jobs.

[Katana190]

I mean, it may work if it turns out SAM can be DPS or Tank mainly in title change alone and the skills abilities are retooled only to be what the stone is set as. Kinda like SMN/SCH but in a way that the skills do not change and level together. Your basic DPS rotation becomes your basic hate rotation and then on, some DPS increasing skills become Defensive based on soulstone. I dunno honestly, I mean I wouldn't argue if they did a Shogun + Samurai for two different roles but seems unlikely to me to have 2 similar named jobs.

I know what you mean, they could have Shogun as a Tank and Samurai as a DPS, would work, make them separate jobs but share some lore. Like you said though, I doubt that will happen, at least not in 4.0, we'll get one or the other, but it would be nice to see the other crop up again in the future so we could have Shogun and Samurai co-exist.

[shao32]

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with i agree in this case add 2 versions of samurai to make happy all i dont think have a archanist of him go to be a solution, one of the mains problems that make this desing is you can't buff or nerf freely without affect the other how is fine.

i dont think we go to get another DPS in this expansion and if we get SAM only can go to tank, but i belive can be good to get a DPS version more late or the next expansion.

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thats not really true, at least in NA english forums a SAM dps is more or less more wanted, but in japanese forums SAM tank is a lot more acepted, ppl want samurai but is SE how decide the role and how make it, if it they do what we read here sure the game die the next day.