Thread: Idea for 4.0 Tank Class

Originally Posted by Ultimatecalibur

What? I'm pretty certain its the other way around... The first Ogre game (Ogre Battle) was in '93 and FFIII was in '90 and FFV was in '92.

Yasumi Matsuno, the creator of the Tactics game, worked at Quest for the Ogre Battle series and joined Square in 1995. There, he created FFT, Vagrant Story, FFTA, and FFXII before leaving in 2006 for freelance work and the whole JP Arteur thing.

What can I say? I'm a big fan of his work.

On topic: We have enough swords already. Samurai makes a lot of sense as a tank, more so than RDM at least. I think both could work though, and I think there's a definite niche both jobs could fill in the current meta. There is a lot of lore reasons to throw RDM in to the dps support pile, but you could make an argument either way (especially if its based on the mystic knight and spellblade variants). Not so sure about Geomancer as casting gets interrupted by damage and isn't great for a tank (instant cast spells are a work-around), and we already have a very good magic tank with DRK.