SAMURAI SHOWDOWN

[silentwindfr]

i did say that actually in the principle the samurai tank is no different than a war with a different mechanic at the place of rage. what it is.

let's summarize what is the war as tank:

- physical resilient tank mostly (sam will be the same since he will not use magic)
- using a 2 hand weapon (same will be the same, i don't see them going throught dual katana for sam since it will be a bit like ninja)
- using mostly parry as mitigation (same for the samurai, since no magic and will have no shield then all in parry!)
- have ton of life (that the part that can be different)
- use the combo system (all the melee use it)
- is more offensive (sam will too be extremely offensive)
- use 2 stance, 1 dps and 1 tank (if the sam is a tank he will too have 2 stance)

rage mechanic is the special trait of the jobs, but outside this and the hp pool... most of the stuff will be redundant with the sam as tank.

you can try to make the mechanic specific of the samurai special... all the rest will be the same. DRK avoid this by relying a lot on magic... but samurai is not a magical job.

plus like said yoshida will have the last word into this, and i doubt they will had a samurai as tank because they are lazy, they will try to bring a new experience for the new tank (when it will happend)

mark my word, samurai will not be a tank, too much feature of the samurai as potential tank is already used by the other tank already present (mostly the war) and Yoshida have said that he will added a jobs if he bring something new to the group and the game. samurai as tank will bring nothing new...

for the balance and work, sorry to say this but i doubt they care for this, so far they have done everything for do bring new experience (not always succeding) and when the developpement did take a turn that was looking lazy is mostly because of limitation of time. however an expansion is worked on since the last expansion is ready to be shiped... they had time to work on it for a looong moment.