SAMURAI SHOWDOWN

[Yhisa]

Samurai will be a dps but me personally dont want old jobs to come back to the game from XI

But look at this

Pld/ war/ drk = Vitality
Whm/ ast / sch = Mind
Mech/ nin/ bard = Dexterity
BLM/ SMN = Intellect
Drg / Mnk = strength

Going by this i believe we will see a INT or STR base dps this is for certain for all we know they could be making a brand new job from using all of the resources from XI

Example would be AST which is a combination of WHM/SCH and corsair (cards)

But i really hope its not Geomancer, rune fencer, samurai, beast master, puppeteer, dancer, etc leave it all behide and make somethink new

Id love an exorcist for a healer or dps but thats me and im thw minority

[Nalien]

Samurai will be a dps but me personally dont want old jobs to come back to the game from XI

For the most part, they're not Final Fantasy XI Jobs, they're just Final Fantasy Jobs... This is a Final Fantasy game, so they're likely to focus on the iconic Final Fantasy Jobs rather than make their own thing... Part of their goal with this game is to appeal to nostalgia, so I doubt they'd do something silly like Bravely Default did... That said, I wouldn't mind some Bravely Default/Second Jobs making their way over in some form... We seemingly gave them Astrologian, so it only seems fair... Wizard + Fencer in particular seems like a great way to implement Red Mage here IMO (fencing stances + magic crafting, perfect).

The only new Job Final Fantasy XI added was Puppet Master, arguably Rune Fencer too, but I'd say that's close enough to the Mystic Knight/Runic Knights of FFV/VI. Although if I'm going to get into that, I'm fairly sure Puppet Master was just Edgar with a pet... I think some of the pet attachments even shared some of the names with his Tools gimmick.

[DWolfwood]

But look at this

Pld/ war/ drk = Vitality
Whm/ ast / sch = Mind
Mech/ nin/ bard = Dexterity
BLM/ SMN = Intellect
Drg / Mnk = strength

Going by this i believe we will see a INT or STR base dps...

I really don't think they're using the primary stats as a basis for balancing the type of jobs they're bringing.

[Eul]

Anything with blade always goes to tank roles... But I really want this job as DPS.

[FinalWolf]

Let it be a dps since we need more dps. In fact I hope they add 4 dps in 4.0

[Gabrielleblanc]

Samurai dps please, having two tanks basically using 2h swords would just be a bad joke. I think Blue Mages should be tanks, but thats just me. Red Mage I honestly can't see them being anything but dps... Not a whole lot of FF staples that can be healers.

[DWolfwood]

Samurai dps please, having two tanks basically using 2h swords would just be a bad joke.

The game will most likely call the Samurai weapons, "great katanas" to distinguish them for players, but real Samurai weapons are simply "katanas," so if you wanted to balance job choices in this manner, one could argue that DPS already have a katana wielder.

Needless to say, I don't think this should be a factor when deciding.

[Gabrielleblanc]

The game will most likely call the Samurai weapons, "great katanas" to distinguish them for players, but real Samurai weapons are simply "katanas," so if you wanted to balance job choices in this manner, one could argue that DPS already have a katana wielder.

Needless to say, I don't think this should be a factor when deciding.

It's an odd situation, while we need tanks, having all these 2h users tanking really screws over people who want to play a 2h dps and get shoved into dragoon... as for the DPS the Katana weilder uses dual daggers, just because the eso look like wakizashi doesn't really make it so. Personally I would love another shield using class or a dual wield tank, maybe blue mages with dual sabers?

Though at the same time I don't think a new tanking class will really add players to it, because at the end of the day, if you want to tank you tank. A lot of players don't enjoy that playstyle.

[Alacran]

Thing is having all asian inspired jobs being DPS seems a bit out of balance. It could be said Doma fell due to a lack of Tanks Healers (which is kinda funny). The reason the guy with the sword is usually the the Tank is because the swordsman stands in front to issue the challenge. There is also the issue of a Samurai in Erozea already.

Perhaps the DPS Samurai is already here.

[shao32]

I don't know about healers trinity whe have now, but tanks are very unbalance in MT OT role, in 4.0 whe need a new strong OT how match warrior for OT spot, samurái can be perfect for that but if SE choose samurái for a dps spot then meaby i expect templar like a tank, 2 dps in the expansión is so much and whe have a lot of then now.