Quote Originally Posted by Alacran View Post
If there is one thing i have leares through all of these SAM DPS/ Tank threads it's this: The vocal majority would rather bastardize the concept of a real world warrior culture that for generations held up fundamental ideals of honor, sacrifice, and duty to others before and at the cost of their own lives (Bushido being not unlike a Knights Chivalry), for the sake of less role responsibility in a fantasy based mmo ...

The saddest part? In wanting to play the fantasy of a Samurai, they want to cut out a Samurais role in not only real world history but established fantasy aswell. The reason we don't have a sword DPS is simple, the sword iconography/ symbology denotes a hero. By all means prove me wrong, pictures of swords through the back are welcome, particularly Samurai attacking the enemy From behind.
Well if you really want to go into the history aspect, many of them were VERY corrupt, particularly the ronin, towards civilians. Just like today, it wasn't exactly uncommon for civilians to hate the "police" for their treachery. Being power hungry was probably a much greater occurrence then, than it is now. There were no doubt very chivalrous or honorable samurai, like we see in movies or read about in stories, but there were absolutely very corrupt ones. They were human, after all. The same can be said for European Knights. So... I mean, a sword spilling innocent and dishonorable blood isn't exactly a farfetched idea for the "honorable" samurai class. Nobunaga is a pretty common go-to, though his extremely evil portrayal in modern stuff isn't exactly historically justified. His deeds were great, horrific in some cases (like the slaughtering of women and children), but great.

Hell, my mention of the ronin and common manipulation of history in fiction is actually enough of a reason to argue for a DPS label lol. Unless this game is trying to be factitious in recreating point for point historical themes, they don't exactly have to follow IRL history. Truth be told, the game would be boring as **** if I had to sit through history class again.