Quote Originally Posted by VargasVermillion View Post
Samurais usually are tanks, they are just more damage focused than knight and have a lot a debuff attacks. The very nature of a samurai is tank like, they wear flashy armor to stand out and draw attention on the battlefield and were all about protecting their masters.

Also wasn't SAM supposed to be a tank in FF11 like how ninja was going to be dps until it was found that they could both do opposite jobs better? (or more so that parry tanks didn't work well.)

In FFXI SAM was an extremely good tank for endgame. Tachi Gekko and Shoha were used to hold hate on the hardest monsters. (They had huge attack bonuses)

SAM also had access to excellent PDT sets with the ability to change stances to pull hate or dodge/parry damage.