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

[Enur]

meaning it should wear Fending armor

Oh yeah!

Look at this. Give him a katana and he's sure to look samurai'y.

While this is a heavy exaggeration surely you must realise that samurai would look downright silly in this games heavy armor. I vouch for Samurai to compete with DRG for armorclass. Mail suits a samurai better than plate in this game at least.

I am fairly neutral (leaning towards tank. You guys have fantastic points on the subject) on the tank/dps dilemma currently raised i must bid you this: How about a STR tank a la WoW Brewmaster monk tank, that staggers the damage they recieve over time? That would be quite interesting in my humble opinion. And a non-plate tank? I really like that idea. Instead of having a large health pool it would instead have a stagger period, making it easier for healers to heal out large sums of damage. And of course a few methods of mitigating the built up "stag"