Samurai Tank...

[Duelle]

The lore behind samurai is more tank meta but I think people would be happy if it were dps. But I hope it's not 1 2 3 4 like other melee dps

Every melee is married to the combo system, but there's ways to interpret the system to make it unique to SAM.

Also, we don't really know the lore intended for SAM if it were to enter the game. I see only two potential routes. Tank would probably be something like referring to the retainers of the shogun (basically like Cyan was a retainer to the king of Doma in FFVI). DPS would probably focus more on the wandering swordsman archetype (which is more likely if we were to play on the angle of samurai sort of going into hiding to avoid being killed after the Garlean occupation).

Sure, this is a flip of stereotypes, but the damage is already done. NIN are displayed as loyal retainers to a lord (something that is stereo-typically used for samurai), so SAM being displayed as those that went into hiding to preserve their art and wait for the time to strike back at the Garleans is pretty much all that's left, as I see it. That leaves the proposed antagonist for the expansion with the triple gun-katana, but I'm not touching that one with a ten foot pole.