Quote Originally Posted by Jandor View Post
I'm not sure what gimmick Samurai would have. If you squint hard enough at DRK... all that parrying and dodging, two handed swords, abilities that get powered up through channeling inner magic/chi/focus.
I know they said they considered SAM before going with Dark Knight. It seems if anything the fact it was going to be in 3.0 works against it being in 4.0 as, to me at least, it looks like they reused a lot of the initial concept for DRK.
This is something I would be willing to put money on. The Dev's are all about reusing resources, so I don't see why they would scrap one tank design and make a whole other one when they can just tag Dark on it and suddenly it fits. I've seen countering as a main mechanic tossed around a lot but that just says Blue Mage to me. I'm still hoping that the Spider-Man Shirt alludes to the Symbiotes Caranage, Venon, Toxin, and Scream. They're an alien race that attaches itself to a host in order to survive and at times in a parasitic manner, very similar to the voidlings that sneak into our world and attach themselves onto a host in order to survive. We've also been getting a lot of focus on the Void as of late so a class that derives from it would be showing up at a prime time.