Samurai Melee DPS thoughts

[ShaneDawn]

Typical Final Fantasy Samurai: a Badass frontline fighter that faces his opponents and looks them in the eyes, never backs down. Fights with counters, parries and heavy blows while also being capable of protecting his teammates with skills like Threaten, Sentinel and Guard.

Final Fantasy XIV Samurai: Fights the enemy from behind and flank like a pussy. But has a kewl sword. H Y P E.

[Domeric]

I wish it was a tank, but I guess I finally have a reason to play a dps.

[Shurrikhan]

As far as I can imagine, the primary limiting factor is going to be whether or not dungeon design allows for people to forgo tanks to a larger degree than Heavensward's. Given SE's drive to remove their own mechanics (virtually any form of CC), it will probably be difficult to run nontraditional parties in order to escape queue times, but even that would require running with 3 friends so it's not like that would have been some sort of saving grace generally.

[XSamsaraLotusX]

Yey i can ask 100k+ for dungeon runs as a tank in 4.0 from all this over population of dps.

[Derio]

Yey i can ask 100k+ for dungeon runs as a tank in 4.0 from all this over population of dps.

With SAM being so popular I can see 500k+ on certain servers

[XSamsaraLotusX]

Not sure why people are so upset about there not being any healers or tanks.
Any WHM or PLD can tell you how badly they're balanced. To throw another job into the midst of that would have been horrible. I want them to take their time and reevaluate the identity of certain jobs and what they can do for the party.

Once things are balanced and certain jobs aren't suffering, I'll look to getting new toys to play with.

Good thing all the dpses are balanced so they can add new one.all players love monks or drg in a run.

[XSamsaraLotusX]

People you know what the big joke here.
Its not even a samurai.
Sad day when a Japanese dont know what a samurai is.

[Yin111]

People you know what the big joke here.
Its not even a samurai.
Sad day when a Japanese dont know what a samurai is.

The Japanese are saying that it is more akin to Ronin, not an actual Samurai. The counter argument however, it seems that the theme for the city shown in the trailer, is styled in the Edo period, under Galamond rule. During this time, samurais wore robes rather then armor. And violance is outlawed but not effectivly enforced. I still want to lean to Shogun Tank in a future expansion that still is very far off. And remember, Yoshida envisioned Samurai as a robed Iaido stance user, and a armored Samurai Tank as a Shogun.

[Alacran]

People you know what the big joke here.
Its not even a samurai.
Sad day when a Japanese dont know what a samurai is.

Aye, a Samurai was basically a lord. They had the money to have armor. We get the anime Ronin, Iaido being it's focus, not actually used in warfare in which the Samurai mythos grew from.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Aye, a Samurai was basically a lord. They had the money to have armor. We get the anime Ronin, Iaido being it's focus, not actually used in warfare in which the Samurai mythos grew from.

Its very Rurouni Kenshin, I'm excited for it :P