Samurai relesing sooner then we think?

[Brightshadow]

I'm actually unsure if "Red Mage" classic will enter into the game. I'm more inclined to believe we'll end up with a "Magic Knight" type class that can do melee and ranged magic damage based around magic weapon buffs. Really... In the party mechanics that we have, a true "Red Mage" is hard to fit in because they literally have a bit of everything... so Healing magic, protection magic, damage magic, debuff magic and buff magic... Same With Blue Mage, and both have the jack of all trades kind of theme so they can fit into any role as necessary... Just the way FFXIV is set up with defined class roles would make them hard to fit in.

If they do do Samurai, I'm expecting a DPS inspired by Cyan from FFVI.

I'm also still waiting on my Chemist/Potions healing class.

Blue Mage is a DPS with some support spells, I can see it being added in the future but that would require the revamp of the mob skills in the game because many of them are bland, and don't have any additional effects except for damage. In addition to that many monsters have physical skills so it would make a great alternative to black mage, because the blue mage could focus more on burst physical damage.

As for Red mage it doesn't have to be a hybrid it could be like the rune fencer from ff11, or what many consider to be the mystic knight.

[Ultimatecalibur]

We are unlikely to see another Single class/job added by itself, and that any classes/jobs that are added will likely be in a 4 role pack of Tank/mDpS/rDpS/Healer.

[Zaft]

Blue Mage is a DPS with some support spells, I can see it being added in the future but that would require the revamp of the mob skills in the game because many of them are bland, and don't have any additional effects except for damage. In addition to that many monsters have physical skills so it would make a great alternative to black mage, because the blue mage could focus more on burst physical damage.

As for Red mage it doesn't have to be a hybrid it could be like the rune fencer from ff11, or what many consider to be the mystic knight.

Quite a few mob abilities actually have additional stuff (poison, paralyze, petrify, magic defense down, etc), but they're all avoidable, so we just never actually see that stuff happen.

[Terrini]

Blue Mage is a DPS with some support spells, I can see it being added in the future but that would require the revamp of the mob skills in the game because many of them are bland, and don't have any additional effects except for damage. In addition to that many monsters have physical skills so it would make a great alternative to black mage, because the blue mage could focus more on burst physical damage.

As for Red mage it doesn't have to be a hybrid it could be like the rune fencer from ff11, or what many consider to be the mystic knight.

I seem to remember my brother in FFXI playing Blue Mage as a Tank... Or maybe that was just it's incredible ability to solo... But Blue Mage they have stated that they want but the mechanics to make it work within the FFXIV gameplay as of yet elude them. I really don't know whether they'll ever work it out or not.

And as for Red Mage, that's pretty much what I was saying. It's still not "Red Mage" as people would think of Red Mage but more a class like Steiner (FF9) or perhaps Celes (FF6). It can draw on the Red Mage motif, but in no way would I expect it to even be CALLED "Red Mage" at that point. It will not be the Classic representation people think of, unless all they really want is the Pimping Red Mage Hat and Three Musketeer Style and wait... BLM is getting that with it's Heavensward set! But As I said, a Sword Mage/Magic Knight/Mystic Knight/Rune Fencer, sure, but not a "Red Mage".

[EdwinLi]

Though since SAM was originally planned to be released in 3.0 but move due to not wanting another Eastern themed Job this soon we can guess they may have a decent amount of SAM's concept finished.

However, release plan is another story since they can push the release to anytime they want.

Best we can do now is see where the story is taking us for openings of future Jobs to suit the theme of future areas or stories.

It's like back when Yoshi-P said he didn't want to release the Gunblade Job until we can enter the Garlean Empire though Yoshi-P and SE have been shoving the return of the Garlean Empire and possible next Eorzea vs Garlean Empire war down our throats in 2.X content Main Scenario lately when it not talking about Heavensward related stuff.

[Shieldbreaker]

Kind old, but...

-They had an idea to make Samurai a tank. However because the Heavensward (I think they call it Souten no Ishgard in Jp) theme is dark, they felt a dark knight was more fitting for the role.
-Inside of YoshiP the Samurai feels more like a DPS than a tank.
-Since they released the Ninja job,they didn't want another Japanese style job
-They decided to skip Samurai for now but since a lot of people request it they are still examining whether to add it in the future

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...rview_summary/

[Kurenai_Night]

I hope they make samurai happen... That was my main in FFXI! Was really looking forward to playing it on a faster scale pacing that FFXIV has to offer. Would be cool if they had different stance animations that did different things. maybe a stance for higher skill speed or one with higher damage per skill etc. Or... what about a two sword sam!? regardless of how they implement it in game It WILL be my main again and I'll be happy to have it!

[aerialrave]

I would rather see Samurai as a caster like in FF Tactics casting different sword magics, than to see it as a tank.

[madolyn]

for the love of the twelve please give me rdm.

[Ahnthistik]

They already said that releasing a job during "regular patchs" (like they did for the rogue/ninja) was too much work and pressure to the dev team. They don't know if they're gonna do it again. Maybe we'll have a surprise, but I don't think so.