Samurai Job = DPS Job

[Drako]

The general reason behind renaming something with translations is to do how they make people react, and lure new people. While I would've loved the JP name myself, it is a bland name to english speakers. Think about the Resident Evil games, they were called Biohazard in JP. If that name was the english name too, would it catch people's eyes as "this is going to be a horror game?" I could probably find a lot more comparisons, and I know there's even some that were EN first and they changed for JP with what we'd think is a generic name.

Oh believe me I understand the reason why they do the things they do at the localization team. I just have issues with the names they come up with sometimes. I don't really want to further derail the thread, so I'll let it go.

[Teslo]

off-topic but what the heck, Ishgard was in the name of the expansion in JP? Why not in english? I hate when the localization team goes batty and comes up with some random name for things. It ends up sucking bad...no offense to anyone that likes the name, but it just sounds so lazy. sounds like they just asked people to think of any random name they thought sounded cool and put it in a hat to be drawn.

on topic, I guess its cool they may release sam in the future.

The Japanese title for the game translates as "The Blue Skies of Ishgard" which, in my opinion, is a much better name than "Heavensward". But I might just be used to the longer names from the FFXI expansions...

I see this has been addressed already, a few times. Mah bad! That's what I get for not reading the whole post and just responding at-will. :P

[Anarnee]

off-topic but what the heck, Ishgard was in the name of the expansion in JP? Why not in english? I hate when the localization team goes batty and comes up with some random name for things. It ends up sucking bad...no offense to anyone that likes the name, but it just sounds so lazy. sounds like they just asked people to think of any random name they thought sounded cool and put it in a hat to be drawn.

on topic, I guess its cool they may release sam in the future.

To be fair, I believe that the team that writes the lore and stuff does it in English first, so I believe the Japanese version is actually the one that ended up changed no?

ANYWHO

;___; I want SAM tank... Though I'd also be happy if they like made another class and made it like ACN/SCH/SAM where you could do both~

[Nep_Nep]

I always imagined Sam as a DPS. I saw it as a DPS that got strong when attacking from the front. (to show honor and all that.) I wonder if that could work in this game.
I wonder how it will look when it eventually gets released. Cool to know its coming in the future.

[Cluebilly]

I always imagined Sam as a DPS. I saw it as a DPS that got strong when attacking from the front. (to show honor and all that.) I wonder if that could work in this game.
I wonder how it will look when it eventually gets released. Cool to know its coming in the future.

It maybe could, but they'd probably need to give Samurai some really good defense or defensive abilities so it could take the hits. Imagine Samurai trying to take a mountain buster to the face

[Laelius]

Whats the source of this?

[FOOLK1LLAH]

I love it. Greatsword is my favorite weapon, and I was hoping for Dark Knight to be DPS, but when he was announced as a tank I was disappointed. The katana is my second favorite and thus, I am very happy that Yoshi-P is leaning toward DPS. I have two DPS classes and while I am playing a tank right now, I can be honest in saying I am a much better DPS.

[Martumal]

Personally I like tanking more so I was hoping we'd see it as a tank. Either way, as long as it's released I'll be happy to play it. Hope they don't make us wait too long.

[Kamifubuki-Yoakesetsuri]

I'm glad my favorite job will be a DPS

[Morningstar1337]

This seems interesting:

• On the one hand Samurai/Swordmasters use counterattacks as their gimmick, making it seem to suited to a tank role
• On the other hand, since Dark Knight had become a rank there's no melee DPS that uses Swords. (Rouges don;t count. they use Knives)
• And then there will likely be the purists that will cry fowl on SAM not being a Tank becuase of the 1st point
• Of course SE is not obligated to make everything conform to precedent standards. In fact they're not even obligated to make SAM counter oriented, but instead make a new gimmick for it