@Naoki Yoshida-> Make Samurai a DPS class!!!

[hagare]

And there comes the shifting goalposts and excuses. "It's not a REAL sword DPS".

so is BLM a staff DPS or a magic DPS?

[Nakiami]

so is BLM a staff DPS or a magic DPS?

That depends if you sit within melee range or not :P

Anyhow RDM isn't a melee dps, it's a ranged dps that carries and can use a sword. I'll give it a shot it sounds fun. In all honesty I wouldn't be surprised if Samurai came in as a Tank considering they considered Samurai for the Tank role in heavensward, but I wouldn't be as elated if it was a Tank than if it came out as a dps. But I'm willing to bet Samurai might be held off until 5.0 so get used to 5 million more TANK VS DPS SAMURAI threads. Unfortunately, we keep torturing ourselves with these threads.

[Radacci]

At this point it will be either a DPS or a tank and it would be far too late to change that. They aren't going to completely overhaul a class less than 6 months from release.

I will say this. If SAM is announced and it is a DPS then they better introduce a popular tank class or DPS will have very long dungeon queues when stormblood launches.

nah, lv cap goes up to 70, so ppl will cap their mains first, which...is spread out across all the jobs. so if you start doing SB MSQ right away, you won't see a single SAM or RDM, anywhere; you might see someone after a few hours, cause they are insane speed runners, but it will take a few days before it starts to become noticeable.

[Apoptomon]

We need another INT job and another STR job (DPS, tanks are VIT). It looks like RDM will be the former, and SAM is a valid candidate for the latter. So why not?

[Yeol]

We got Red Mage which uses a sword so . . Samurai will most probably be a tank.

Or we'll get 2 new damage dealers and their queues will be.. I don't even want to imagine.

[Zeonx]

The Tank will be dancer.

Redmage support

DPS samurai

[Radacci]

The Tank will be dancer.

Redmage support

DPS samurai

as far as we know, there's only going to be 2 new jobs: SAM and RDM. RDM is confirmed to be DPS.

[Madepossible]

Now the Red Mage is DPS, then yes, I want the Samurai be a tank. Don't be fucking greedy.

And we cannot vote. The "democracy" works always if all peolpe is in the same terms. But the 80% of the community is DPS. Every class youvote, will be DPS because is majority alwas. So, waht the hell? Tanks are minority of the all minoritys, we will enver win a single votation. We deserve too nice things. And no, a Hammer tank is not what we want.

And Why this suddenly post? You all are conviced than SAM will be a DPS. Ask for being a tank is more logical, since everyone asumed wil lbe DPS. Or... do you fear wil lbe tank when Red Mage becomes a DPS isntead of tank?

Anyway, if the next one is Samurai (let's wait till Europe fan fest), his role is already determined. I will say only, put 2 DPS classes only will break the entire game (Duty finder wise).So I hope the Devs realised that before put 2 DPS classes.

Point on!!!

[Paladinleeds]

I actually think SAM makes more sense as a DPS. Since I believe it can bring something unique to the table vs being a tank. I won't main it either way though (now dancer on the other hand, that has my attention if it comes in Stormblood, but it better not be a DPS), so I'm not really biased here.

[Madepossible]

I actually think SAM makes more sense as a DPS. Since I believe it can bring something unique to the table vs being a tank. I won't main it either way though (now dancer on the other hand, that has my attention if it comes in Stormblood, but it better not be a DPS), so I'm not really biased here.

Oh my God are you serious? Red mage already a DPS, yet you want ANOTHER DPS? Seems so unbiased, no really. The problem is that we need a viable tank role and Samurai as a Tank is the best option: heavy armor, good for parry etc. And is appealing for the MAJORITY (I said majority, so no not all tanks but a good some who actually main tank) want something nice. How many more DPS jobs do u want? Fk Tanking if yoshida isn't going to give love to tanks, might aswell go to DPS and yolo.