Samurai Melee DPS thoughts

[SaitoHajime]

terrible. sam should have been a tank, guess Ill have to switch my main from tank to dps. thanks SE

[Evergrey]

I believe the question was asked what kind of armor a SAM would use and the response with "it will be light gear like a monk"

"Like a MNK" isn't the same as "it will share gear with MNK"

Did they say if SAM is going to share gear with MNK or DRG or is it going to get its own too? =w=

SAM is going to share gear with MNK.

10chars....

[ShinMetsu]

I believe the question was asked what kind of armor a SAM would use and the response with "it will be light gear like a monk"

"Like a MNK" isn't the same as "it will share gear with MNK"

"What gear will you be battling over?"
"It's in the same section as MNK"
"So all you NINs, breathe a sigh of relief"

How can you interpret that to be sam not sharing gear with mnk?

[Alaina]

A little sad as a healer to see I'm stuck with no new gameplay to discover and enjoy for the next 2 years :/
(IIRC they stated they won't add job during patch cycle)

me neither as a dps... =/

[St0rmchild]

"What gear will you be battling over?"
"It's in the same section as MNK"
"So all you NINs, breathe a sigh of relief"

How can you interpret that to be sam not sharing gear with mnk?

In that case I stand corrected, my source of info was secondhand

[Blackcanary]

I'm supper happy Sam is a DPS.

[SaitoHajime]

next class better be shogun :[

[Giubba]

I admit i'm really really salty at the moment.

As a tank (and i honestly think a lot of healers feel the same thing) this is a spit in the eye considering that we are literally asked to keep dragging the entire dps population with the same classes for the next years.

Yoshi admitted that since the introduction of a new tank class didn't attracted new player to tank role they dropped any semblance of support to other roles outside the oh so precious dps

and this

Not only that, I also recall being mentioned that tanks/healers can look forward to an overhaul of their jobs ... so that could be interesting.

is simply wishfulll thinking.

The overhaul IS NOT a complete and utter change on how class play or act, the basic of each class (paladin being the most defensive,warrior the more prone to dps etc.) will not shift what we will get will be less skill for making room to the coming years and expanions.

[Voltyblast]

All I can say about the Samurai being DPS is....Enjoy your hour long of queues! I'm sticking with my warrior.

PS: jokes aside, a shame since that if samurai was going to be a tank, I might've tried the expansion on launch at least to try it out. I guess I'll just wait for a discount and wait the first patch before purchasing (Don't want to repeat HW mistake).

Toodles

[Kit-Kat]

Remember when NIN came out? It's going to be like that.
But worse. Infinitely worse.

Like I said in another thread. Tank and healer mains will still want to lvl up to 70 asap and they'll queue normally. NIN was a problem because it came out on 2.4, way late into the 2.0 "expansion", and everyone already was lv50 (except newbies duh) with nothing to lvl up but ONE new job.