Quote Originally Posted by Shippuu View Post
And there's nothing wrong with all of them having slashing weapons forever. The proposed jobs people are asking to be tanks all traditionally use swords of some form or another, red mage, samurai, blue mage, all sword wielders. Other tank-like jobs in Final fantasy games also wield swords.

Making tanks share a common damage type (slashing) offers plenty of benefits such as allowing them to comfortably fit in any party composition. Introducing a tank job with a contrasting damage type offers none of the compatibility or benefits.
They wont see how ridiculous a two handed Katana wielding Samurai will look behind the enemy. Welcome to 4.0, 24 man raids...