Aside from Samurai being a damage dealing role or tanking once, can we discuss about the gear that they are going to wear? In ARR and HW the main tanks have always received a armour look that fits the Knight theme. Maybe its just me, but dont you guys think fashion-wise the Knight theme does not fit the Samurai at all. The only way I can see Samurai looking like one, is if they give Samurai their own gearset, like Monk, Dragoon and Ninja.

But past interviews and from what we have learned of the developers, is that they do not like to do extra work. An example is:

1. We can not have butts, because modeling gear around the butts would be to much work.
2. We cant have belts, because modeling them with the other geats takes to much work.
3. The races need to be as close as possible to the current ones so they can remodel the gear easily and it wont take alot of work. That is why we will never see very different bodytypes, open gloves and shoes for races that have big claws or races with digitigrade feets.

All of these stuff that I have mentioned come straight out of Yoshida"s mouth.

So my question to you guys is, how will they keep the Samurai identity if the Samurai is going to look like a European knight with a samurai blade? Or is the look of the samurai not important and we should only focus on Katana and skills?