Samurai Job = DPS Job

[Averax]

But what will Red Mage be?!

I bet it's going to be a healer.

[ToppeHatte]

All I want in life is such:

Samurai-Tank
Red Mage-DPS
Dancer-Healer

[ChexMix]

I can't imagine a samurai attacking an opponent from behind

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

I can't imagine a samurai attacking an opponent from behind

Why don`t, in real life and history they were really dirty and greedy high class scum who kept on betraying each other and doing all kind of treacherous things to get an advantage over others. Ninjas on the other hand... Most loyal servants ever.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

All I want in life is such:

Samurai-Tank
Red Mage-DPS
Dancer-Healer

I also want dancer, always though it'd be a nice alternate off rogue...

[ImmortalDreamer]

I just want a DPS class that uses a sword as a weapon. I'm getting really annoyed that every time they add a new sword-wielding class, it's always a tank.

[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~

[Calypsx]

I would prefer seeing Samurai as a tank and Red Mage as the sword dps.

I like to see them as brave far east knights who protect their lords. Attacking enemies from behind next to a Ninja would seem really weird for me. It would be nice for Doma to have a tank representative since they already have dps covered with Ninja. (A healer would be neat also)

Red Mage will most likely without a doubt be a sword dps.

[EdwinLi]

not to sound rude but if SAM does not become the 2nd DPS Job that uses Mail armor, since people want Sam as a Tank, then what would be the 2nd Job that use Mail armor or must Dragoon be the only Job that use Mail Armor and all future DPS job can only use cloth and leather armor only?

On topic:

While Sam may fit for a tank the Protection of their Lords it does not always mean taking the hits for them but to aim at eliminating the threat directly. Their weapon of choice, being japanese swords, were often better maintained than their armor.

Weapons like the katana was chosen as the weapon of choice not because of defense but because it provided quick reaction to kill their enemies which would fit the theme of SAM being a DPS if Yoshi-p choose to make it a DPS.

[Ronyx]

Samurai should be a Tanks such as War, with a stance to increase it's damage out put. He can wield heavy armors, so tank seems like a better role. Tohya from Log Horizon is a Samurai tank, so is not usual to see Samurai tanking as it is a front line job.