Ideas for Samurai

[Allyrion]

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Yea, well the term Bushi is much more relevant than Samurai for all intents and purposes. I really just didn't want to bring another term in. Plus it did connote the same meaning later on, and the Bushi class still eventually became synonymous with Samurai. People who had the rice stipends and land. Even the poor ones were still both Samurai/Bushi even when they didn't act like it.

You're right about the rest, but why talk about times that predate the Samurai when discussing the historical Samurai and how they fought? The time of the Samurai was certainly with the rise of the Shogunate so that's really the time period of any relevance to discuss. The peasant warriors fell out of disuse by this time, precisely because the Samurai had solidified the class status and wrested both military and political control of Japan at that point. This was the period of Samurai armies fighting other Samurai armies, so what better time to pull from in terms of iconography or considering the nature of the class (particularly for fighting)?

The Bushi before were still developing what would become the Bushi/Samurai later. Those might as well been proto-Samurai/Bushi. I don't really like using the terms Bushi and Samurai distinctively because they mostly used Bushi for any situation. Bushi, during the later period, still connoted the same elite status that Samurai during the time of the Shogunate. Then again, a lot of Samurai/Bushi were thugs and bullies during any given era so it was really just a matter of privelege (though the principles of Bushido were much more developed in the later periods).

Sorry for the tangent again! I hope SAM comes out soon.

Think Auron from FFX

Auron had such good utility though. Then again all the FFX characters did because the whole system was based on using all of them for counters/buffs/debuffs.
Auron was undoubtedly the tank of that game(even though his damage was good), which is really a role of utility.

He had Sentinel, which made him protect all while he defended.
Also Guard, which took a hit for other characters.
He had Threaten to Stop an enemy.
He even had Entrust to give his Limit Gauge to an ally.
Then obviously all the Breaks.

His Kit was all utility to help the party out and he was clearly the defender and guardian of the group.
Entrust, Guard and Sentinel are particularly sacrificing his own damage/health for the group.

Still, I'd love for SAM to be designed after him.
Especially since his kit is already is based on group play so it's more easily adapted.