PAX 2017 : Request the next new Job

[Alacran]

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My argument is Samurai should have been a Tank, Ronin the DPS (what they gave us as Samurai) and Oracle as a healer. But they short sidedly shot gunned two DPS at once for a expansion launch. As of now Samurai may have the most appeal thematically and as such will pull huge numbers of the player base to it regardless of role. the issue comes form that role being DPS. Tanks want it, DPS want it, some Healers may want it. I struggle to think of what other job can claim that kind of fan base. I do not believe anything can. As such i feel SE not only shot themselves in the foot, but rubbed $#!+ in the wound for good measure. This decision will have ramifications for a very long time i think.

[Yin111]

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To be honest, I agree that Samurai would be better as tank. Part of me wants to think that Yoshida knows what he is doing and is aware that Samurai is the number one most desired job and will noticably sway the playerbase to a role. But he seems to be using 3.0 new job release data as the defining factor of why Samurai is a DPS... Using that logic is incorrect and dangerous, since he circumstance for 3.0 was 1 of each role. People had room to gravitiate to diffrent roles, and Some people wanted Dark Knight but I dont think there was a massive desire for it like samurai. Astrologer was a job that no one wanted, and machinst was talked about but not really all that desired compared to other jobs.
But what done is done, so personally I think its best to ask for the next best thing, which is Shogun. I honestly do not see alot more jobs that can be used as a tank. So sooner or later, and orginal tank job would appear, and heres hoping it would be shogun.