[Suggestion] SAMURAI

[Evangela]

I hope Samurai will be a DPS job. we still have zero swordsman DPS since Paladin & Dark Knight are both tanks.

[Warlyx]

next dps job is gonna be a caster , they added melee (nin) , ranged ( MCH ) , so next is mage or maybe the 1 hybrid dps with 2 stances for melee or caster (think RDM / BLU)

stance for melee or for magic :P , STR gear for melee , or INT gear for caster

[Yukiba]

they are probably saving samurai for when we get to take back doma!

[AdamuKun322]

I do believe Yoshi-P stated awhile back that if Samurai enters the game as a job, it would be a DPS role, not a tank role.

[Darius-Stormcrow]

As someone who was pulling for basically this exact idea, I'm a little disappointed that it seems like it'll be coming into the game as DPS. Not that it was bad as DPS in FFXI.

My favorite thing you got on SAM in FFXI was Overwhelm- just because it was so cool conceptually, doing more damage to enemies from the front. It really drove home the whole "Stand and Fight" feel the class had. That said, I think there's potential here for Samurai as DPS- maybe give them something like what they had in FF Tactics, drawing spirits out of their blades for various effects with sort of an exorcist angle to the class since Samurai vs Demons seems to be a thing.

[VargasVermillion]

Technically DRK should of been a dps and SAM a tank but I'm happy with them switching either way (excited for DRK). We do have too many slashing tanks anyway, I think a spear tank (templar) would be cool. otherwise maybe a hammer or a pet based tank? PUP maybe?

[Khankra]

God pls no. Enough with that 2handed tanks now.
I wait for that class since i started this game back in 1.0 and pls dont make it a tank we have more than enough 2 hand weapon tanks now, and no real 2 hand weapon meele.

[OMEGA_HACK]

At the risk of sounding snooty he also said he was going to put in wandering primals that could be summoned by Free Companies, cheap personal housing, the musketeer class, and many other things. The point of this being that unless its in the game, it can change, even if Yoshi-P says something. :P

Not saying that this idea couldn't easily turn into a DPS class with some tweaking though.

[AzraelX]

I would personally love to see samurai as a Tank due to DPS already have a ninja theme job. Samurai is a popular job so it being a tank will help the tank population. As far as a sword wielder/ caster for DPS- Red mage would be perfect for that.


The devs were considering samurai as a rank so that may be revisited again

[Maero]

Yoshi himself said it is not off the table but it did not sound like he was too interested atm tbh.
If it will happen at all i would expect it closer to the next expansion perhaps.
They had added Ninja so pretty much was the reason Sam was not added