Next Tank Job?

[mythicrose]

Yes, I love this idead.. It fits. Samurai are kown as protectors so them being a tank isnt to far from the idea. We need another tank class to help with tank population I believe.

I want to believe that, but outside of those that want to level one for the "experience" I doubt another tank class would boost the overall tank population in the long term. No doubt the "new car smell" would increase the population in the short term, but really...outside of a few people, only those that truely enjoy the tank role will continue. Tank player base has been small in just about every MMORPG regardless of the number of tank classes involved. The only fluke from my experience was SWTOR.

Edit : Still want my spear weilding samauri tank!

[Hoyryta]

I want to believe that, but outside of those that want to level one for the "experience" I doubt another tank class would boost the overall tank population in the long term. No doubt the "new car smell" would increase the population in the short term, but really...outside of a few people, only those that truely enjoy the tank role will continue. Tank player base has been small in just about every MMORPG regardless of the number of tank classes involved. The only fluke from my experience was SWTOR.

I personally think that more people would tank if they put out bigger numbers for damage. Using wow as an example, tanks still hit HARD in dungeons, and had alot of aoe to make it feel like you were still doing damage despite being a tank. Tanks feel super limited in their abilites. On average you are cycling through the same three moves over and over again until u have to hit a cooldown. PLD is especially boring...

[Duelle]

Ronin would use katana style weapons and could become Ninja (DPS) or Samurai (Tank).

Except Kenjutsu and Ninjutsu are so far removed from each other they may as well be on different planets. >.>;

[Langureion]

NIN. Period.

[lololink]

A tank based on Lancer or pugilist would be a good idea imo, since players could play and level as DD if they want and play as tanks when they don't want to wait.

[ZeroRains]

Not sure why everyone's arguing about this.

Dark Knight Tank. Your argument is invalid, Dark Knights are too awesome to just be bland dps

[Errors]

Not sure why everyone's arguing about this.

Dark Knight Tank. Your argument is invalid, Dark Knights are too awesome to just be bland dps

DRK tank has my vote.

[BoomerOU]

I hope NIN and SAM aren't tanks.

I want Ninja a hybrid physical/magic melee dps.
I want Samurai as a dot/bleed based melee dps(they'd have to increase enemy debuff limit though) -or- a straight forward melee dps that uses a new mechanic.

I hope the next tank branches off LNC, make it the Templar and uses 1h spear and shield, release it with the Ishgard expansion, and make the back story involve the holy see. Makes tons of sense.

[EdwinLi]

I hope the next tank branches off LNC, make it the Templar and uses 1h spear and shield, release it with the Ishgard expansion, and make the back story involve the holy see. Makes tons of sense.

I kind of expect LNC to get a Tank Job for its 2nd Job because of how some of LNC gears currently are Tank Gears. They're few in numbers now but they are still tank gears.

[Gamemako]

I hope the next tank branches off LNC, make it the Templar and uses 1h spear and shield, release it with the Ishgard expansion, and make the back story involve the holy see. Makes tons of sense.

A 1h spear would require completely redoing all animations. Not likely or even necessary. They would just use 2h spears, like WAR uses 2h axes and not a 1h+shield. Additionally, while I often thought of that as a possibility, I've come to the conclusion that it is unlikely. Dragoon is already related to Ishgard, so you'd have two LNC jobs from the same location. Does seem a little more likely that the job that has Rage of Halone would be associated with Ishgard, but who knows. Other LNC possibilities would involve the mention of Hellsguard as the creators of the Halberd weapons in the CRP questline as well as those spearmen of Ala Mhigo mentioned in the MNK questline. Another person mentioned how oddly congruent the names of LNC abilities are for Dark Knight as well -- Vorpal Thrust, Disembowel, Chaos Thrust, Blood for Blood -- though that may be more part of the interaction with FF4 (Wyrm is reportedly a combination of Kain's and Cecil's armors). Then there's always the Chaos Thrust animation if you really wanted to justify Samurai.

I kind of expect LNC to get a Tank Job for its 2nd Job because of how some of LNC gears currently are Tank Gears. They're few in numbers now but they are still tank gears.

4 complete sets, all Scale armor -- ilvl23, 32, 38, and 46, along with Mosshorn (i50) and others. The asymmetric-defense armor used by DRG is actually pretty uncommon prior to late game. Also somewhat odd, GLA can use it, and there's an asymmetric Onion Armor set at ilvl80 and a shield for it at ilvl90...

/wildspeculation

//EDIT:

Ok first, we're getting a Ranged DPS next - Musketeer.

That will likely be the next class, but not necessarily the next job.