SAMURAI SHOWDOWN

[Ciri_Wolf]

DRK has a history of using swords in ff. Didn't stop them from getting a scythe in XI. Bards have never used bows in ff before, but in XIV they do. Classes don't need to follow other past variations.

[Shippuu]

DRK has a history of using swords in ff. Didn't stop them from getting a scythe in XI. Bards have never used bows in ff before, but in XIV they do. Classes don't need to follow other past variations.

FFXI which supported multiple weapons per job allowed DRK to still wield greatswords, as well as the DRK unlock quest and main NPC also involved greatswords and not scythes. And bards couldn't use bows? Funny that, cause the Spoony bard Edward from ff4 could certainly equip bows.

You're right though and things don't have to necessarily follow the precedent set by past games but that doesn't change the fact that there's absolutely plenty of merit to making samurai a tank.

[Khalithar]

Didn't stop them from getting a scythe in XI.

Unrelated to the thread but I'm going to say it anyway, as a drk main from FFXI I really miss my scythe. T.T

Edit: I'm also going to repeat something I said earlier that I didn't notice anyone respond to. Sam was originally intended to be the tank job for HW right? The way I interpret that, is that they were already working on and designing samurai tank but at some stage in it's development they stopped and said "let's do dark knight instead." I really don't think that means the samurai tank idea as a whole got scrapped, merely pushed back. I strongly believe they are going to finish it from whatever stage of development it was at and give us the version of the tank they envisioned for HW originally before drk.