Samurai Melee DPS thoughts

[Lambdafish]

The only thing that I'm not completely sold on is how it sounds very similar to how ninja functions. Granted we haven't really seen how it works, but the way it sounds is very similar to ninja.

I have to agree with this, but I'm putting it down to poor explanation on Yoshi P's part. I think it might just be my assumption that the three Iai are like mudras, when in fact they could play very differently. I'm curiously skeptical but interested at this point.

[RaizeGraymalkin]

I have to agree with this, but I'm putting it down to poor explanation on Yoshi P's part. I think it might just be my assumption that the three Iai are like mudras, when in fact they could play very differently. I'm curiously skeptical but interested at this point.

Watching a video earlier and they made the comparison to Monks and their three stances. I thought Ninja, as well, right off the bat, but sharing gear and maybe a playstyle like Monk? I'm excited to see either way.

[XSamsaraLotusX]

Yey i can ask 100k+ for dungeon runs as a tank in 4.0 from all this over population of dps.

[XSamsaraLotusX]

Not sure why people are so upset about there not being any healers or tanks.
Any WHM or PLD can tell you how badly they're balanced. To throw another job into the midst of that would have been horrible. I want them to take their time and reevaluate the identity of certain jobs and what they can do for the party.

Once things are balanced and certain jobs aren't suffering, I'll look to getting new toys to play with.

Good thing all the dpses are balanced so they can add new one.all players love monks or drg in a run.

[XSamsaraLotusX]

People you know what the big joke here.
Its not even a samurai.
Sad day when a Japanese dont know what a samurai is.

[Yin111]

People you know what the big joke here.
Its not even a samurai.
Sad day when a Japanese dont know what a samurai is.

The Japanese are saying that it is more akin to Ronin, not an actual Samurai. The counter argument however, it seems that the theme for the city shown in the trailer, is styled in the Edo period, under Galamond rule. During this time, samurais wore robes rather then armor. And violance is outlawed but not effectivly enforced. I still want to lean to Shogun Tank in a future expansion that still is very far off. And remember, Yoshida envisioned Samurai as a robed Iaido stance user, and a armored Samurai Tank as a Shogun.

[Duelle]

No. Go away.

Play as DD is boring enough already, remove the only thing that prevents you from falling asleep when there is a derp tank isn't a good idea.

Chances are if they remove positionals, they'd add other things for DPS to do. Like melee-specific mechanics, some use of CC, and interrupting spells from the boss that can kill the raid. A boss using an interruptable raid-wipe skill every 10-15 seconds means you need more than 2 people in an interrupt rotation not missing a beat in order to actually get the clear, and if the tank is too busy trying to not get smashed to bits by the boss, that leaves the DPS to do it.

[XSamsaraLotusX]

Adding another tank or healer only increases the difficulty in balancing them all against each other. If the changes in 4.0 aren't enough, why wouldn't they continue to make adjustments. They spent several patches buffing Astro.

Its a nice thing there no need to balanc dps,most dps dont know what they do any way.

[XSamsaraLotusX]

And maybe the new battle system will get ride off positionals ! ;p

And of any game play as all if we at it.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Chances are if they remove positionals, they'd add other things for DPS to do. Like melee-specific mechanics, some use of CC, and interrupting spells from the boss that can kill the raid. A boss using an interruptable raid-wipe skill every 10-15 seconds means you need more than 2 people in an interrupt rotation not missing a beat in order to actually get the clear, and if the tank is too busy trying to not get smashed to bits by the boss, that leaves the DPS to do it.

A use for Paladin!