Quote Originally Posted by Ercapote View Post
EMMMM...no, Samurai was intended to be a tank IN FACT it was going to be the tank for this expansion and ninja was suppose to be released along side with the samurai that's why ninja was going to be the melee, machinist the range and the other respective healer and tank(samurai). Reason YOSHI-P decided to go for Dark Knight was because it didn't fit with the theme of heavensward and they though it would be out of place to have a character like that on a environment like Ishgard. Aside from that I've never seen him or read or view him saying that he wants samurai to be a dps on any of the live letter, but what ut was obvious it was that the initial intended class for samurai was TANK, whether that changes on the future only time will tell but samurai was tank not a DPS even on XI was intended to be a TANK but we all know what happened there...
Yes, he did say that SAM was considered for the heavensward tank class. However, he also said that because they went with DRK they will probably not make SAM also into a tank. He also stated that he had personally preferred as melee DPS anyway. No, I don't want to go scour the internet to find it. Anyhow, while it does make a lot of sense for SAM to be a tank, I don't think it will turn out that way.

I also don't think we'll be getting more than 2 jobs for the xpac. Pretty sure there was some mention of how difficult it was to get all 3 jobs in for heavensward and they didn't want to kill themselves trying to repeat for the next xpac. So I'm expecting 1-2 jobs at the xpac (SAM/RDM) and maybe some other job introduced midway thru heavensward if we're lucky.