Quote Originally Posted by aesteval View Post
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.
Honestly and with all respect, in my opinion a RDM Tank would simply look like a better dressed PLD... a single sword with white magic skills offset by a few black magic skills for good measure, A Tank DNC would be slightly more interesting however it's lack of armor would mean any hit even if built off evasion Tanking would be crippling.

As a simple fan of martial arts and warrior cultures from history and fantasy i can tell you now in my own studies, Katana and Two handed swords (Montante, Claymore, Zweihander, Bearing Sword, ect...) are not handled the same way, to say nothing of the Soul Edge cleavers and Dragon Slayers we DRK's wield... To say that "we already have a two handed sword Tank!" is simply wrong, we have high fantasy based Dark Knight using Darkness and an over large blade almost to heavy to swing. It is nothing like a Samurai's use of a Katana. The fact that as a DRK my hate combo closer has me shooting out a bolt of dark energy pretty much thematically shows it to be a Magic and Melee Job something that RDM can only hope to copy in the same role...

In my ideal build for SAM Tank i see a Draw-Out (FFT) ability that promotes aggressive skill use through AOE buffs to melee DPS (hp, mp, tp, ss, def, vit, str, eva, ect...). Something that my mind would allow more of a zerg like playstyle among melee DPS (DRG, MNK, NIN,)