@Naoki Yoshida-> Make Samurai a Tank class!

[GMERC]

a good post

In complete agreement, the "mage tank" meme should definitely go. There's a difference between magical theming on the likes of Dark Knight (yes i know it's not literal magic) and Paladin (with their heals, their magical and supporting aspects being something i definitely hope they expand on going forward) and the suggestion of a tank that exclusively uses magic, for a myriad of reasons Shippuu laid out.

I think you'd have an easier time getting a 'magically-themed tank' out of Viking than Red Mage, ya feel me?



Slap a shield on this and you're good to go.

[EdwinLi]

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I picture a Hammer Tank to be more of a two-handed type.

That picture plus a shield will just be a Mace/shield Job which for some reason RPGs tend to relate more to Paladin/holy knight/priest type Jobs.

Two-handed Hammer would certainly fit more for Viking in my opinion.

[GMERC]

I picture a Hammer Tank to be more of a two-handed type.

That picture plus a shield will just be a Mace/shield Job which for some reason RPGs tend to relate more to Paladin/holy knight/priest type Jobs.

Two-handed Hammer would certainly fit more for Viking in my opinion.

Except "mace / shield job" will never be a Paladin in this game, because Paladins use swords. All the more reason to have it here on another job known for using Hammers (of which there are very few to begin with). We could use another job that actually equips secondary arms, anyhow, and introducing another shield user just means that every hour put towards making non-JSE shields for Paladin is now doing double time for Viking.

Besides, Warrior is basically already a two-handed hammer job. I can count maybe two animations for WAR that wouldn't work completely interchangeably with a two handed hammer. I don't think we need another rowdy "two handed weapon they swing around and slam the ground with like madmen" tank because I think it's basically already been done to death with WAR, there's not any room for such a thing to stand out if you just want to swap out an axe head for a hammer head.