Roles for Samurai, Red Mage, Dancer

[LineageRazor]

Samurai being a tank seems like the obvious choice - but I kinda hope it doesn't happen. Samurai will probably use a katana or great katana, and that would make for THREE out of four tanks wielding swords... It'd be nice to have a sword-wielding DPS for a change. Of course, they could get fancy and give SAM a Naginata, or even a bow...

I'm not sure why people still think that having another tank class is going to fix the shortage of tanks.

It DOES help, some. There was a notable increase in the number of tanks when DRK came out, and that was largely attributable to the fact that folks wanted to play Dark Knight, even if they had to tank to do it. If the job is cool or iconic enough, a lot of people will get over their hangups about tanks and play it anyway.

There's no shortage of tanks problem to begin with.

I can't imagine you saying this with a straight face. The shortage of tanks is beyond easy to prove. Queue up Duty Finder as Tank, Healer, and DPS. Which one gets in immediately? Which one has to wait longest? Tanks get their instant queues for a reason; there are many healers and many many DPS looking for parties, but not nearly as many tanks. So as soon as one queues, they're instantly matched with the DPS and healers that are waiting.