Samurais vs. Knights

[Zenaku]

im all for the knight class samurais are so played out i dont want to see a repeat of ffxi where all other classes kept getting nerfed and the japan based class ie sam got improvements again and agian its not fair to the GLOBAL COMUNITY that said if yoshi and the team can keep the biased thing out of it then adding both classes is fine just dont pander to the sam first type of mindset

Samurai would be a Job for sure which means it be party base now it need a class to go with so they may come up with a class.

Seeing how all the jobs are base of FF history i don't see the issue here -.- there always going to be that 1 overpower class/job to do Event A and this Class/Job to do B,C,D so once again i don't see the issue i think you are just overreacting with this issue.

No matter what happen players would find the best job/class to do anything with and that just a issue SE would have to fix as they go with the game which never be fix 100% make all class/job the same people get bored of them fast.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

I think the problem with the name Samurai itself is that, a Samurai in good ol' wartimes might have been trained in the sword, spear, bow, and/or unarmed combat (amongst possible other objects). And as time went on, it's something you're just born into (or forged with a family history scroll), it's usually not something you earned.

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On the Job / Class note: With Paladin being incorporated, I suppose it might be appropriate to have a katana/tachi-wielding class (i.e. fencer) with the ability to employ the Samurai job.

[Zenaku]

I think the problem with the name Samurai itself is that, a Samurai in good ol' wartimes might have been trained in the sword, spear, bow, and/or unarmed combat (amongst possible other objects). And as time went on, it's something you're just born into (or forged with a family history scroll), it's usually not something you earned.

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On the Job / Class note: With Paladin being incorporated, I suppose it might be appropriate to have a katana/tachi-wielding class (i.e. fencer) with the ability to employ the Samurai job.

ya but this is a game you can earned it.

[Andrien]

To answer the OP question. Samurai are skill chain masters in FFXI, they breathe TP like if it is their oxygen. They are also Demon Killers.

Knights/Paladin is considered tanks, and Undead Killers.

[MrCale]

There are classes from every culture, references to monsters. Magic erm... Ifrit and Shiva don't sound very Japanese to me! thing about ff is that there are references and touches to almost all cultures. I wonder though what will happen to lancer if samurai shows its face...