Samurai!?

[allluckys]

There are no real tanks in the ff job system besides maybe knight/paladin

[Allyrion]

I'll be leveling Sam either way as well, but I'd greatly prefer it as a dps. I haven't leveled a melee dps (besides to unlock a job) specifically because I'm saving that fun for Sam.

I do get why people want more tanks in game, though I do not believe they'll get the results they are looking for. Instead of turning our favorite dps into tanks to try and balance things out for the DF, wouldn't it be better to pull tanks out of the plethora of FF jobs?

There are no real tanks in the ff job system besides maybe knight/paladin

It can go either way. As allluckys said, FF jobs don't have a big history when it comes to tanks. Samurai has always had high strength and high defense, so it fits the bill to be either dps or tank. Auron, for example, was a tank and my favourite incarnation of the samurai (with break abilities). I wouldn't mind either though.

In FFXI Samurai was originally meant to be a tank, from what I read, but it didn't work out cause of the mechanics. That doesn't need to be an issue for ARR.

Either direction can be really interesting.

[Warlyx]

There are no real tanks in the ff job system besides maybe knight/paladin

well.... some jobs could use "cover" , to take a hit for other members.... other than that :P

and +1 to sam , was my main for looong time