Quote Originally Posted by Farkle View Post
Katana = Japanese sword.
Not all sword users are tanks
Well they originally wanted Samurai to be the Tank of 3.0 before they changed their minds and replaced it with Dark Knight so that speaks on what they thought about the Katana.

Though I believe their reason for replacing SAM for DK in 3.0, and holding it for future release, was because they didn't want another "Eastern themed" Job released this soon in FF14 since Ninja was just released in 2.4.