Roles for Samurai, Red Mage, Dancer

[Nalien]

While we do need to keep tank jobs coming and the role interesting, I'm not sure what about Samurai would actually make it any more interesting than the current tank jobs. Red Mage or Dancer as a tank would be really weird to see, but could bring something different to the role.

I imagine most see it as a very counter-based tank, with an entire rotation built around the Sheltron/Shield Swipe/Reprisal mechanics tanks barely touch on currently... Personally I think Blue Mage is much more suited to that role, though Red Mage could easily fill it as well, if they go down the fencing route enough...

Ideally (and briefly), I'd like to see;

Tanks
Blue Mage - Counter-based tank.
Beast Master - Pet-based tank.

Healers
Dancer - TP/MP hybrid healer.
Chemist - TP based healer.

DPS
Samurai - ranged/melee hybrid, "true" ranged DPS, no shitty support aspects weighing down the damage potential.
Red Mage - TP/MP hybrid DPS.

Beyond that I think we start getting too much overlap with existing Jobs, and most of the more niche Jobs are already potentially rolled into existing ones and/or are too broken... Time Mage lives on in Astrologian, for example. Mystic Knight, just like with Final Fantasy XI, would be absorbed by Red Mage. Stuff like Barbarian or Viking have been rolled into Warrior. There are perhaps some Jobs I'm forgetting about, or just lack the imagination to adapt uniquely into XIV, but for now those are the Jobs I'd expect... I think it balances out quite nicely, we'd have three pet based Jobs for example, spread across all three roles... Red Mage/Dark Knight/Dancer all function as hybrids across the roles... Starts to fall apart from there, but you get the idea...