Samurai Melee DPS thoughts

[Brian_]

It sure is.

It seems like people have completely forgotten how EXP scaling took a quantum leap between 1-50 and 50-60 at HW release. Are you really not expecting the same for 60-70? We needed so much EXP to level from 50-51 that most ARR-based EXP amounts were like a drop of water in the ocean.

I fully expect FATEs to scale poorly again before being buffed later to help people level alts. I fully expect PotD EXP to be nerfed into the ground post 60 until an updated PotD is released. I fully expect beast-tribe dailies, centurio hunts, and leves to be obsolete again.

SE very deliberately made the MSQ the best way to level with HW was released. I expect the same from SB. And, the MSQ is heavily gated by instanced content.

And PF? That's the same as DF. So you make a PF listing LF a tank and healer for content. 10000 other DPS will be doing that, too. I guess you can watch it like a hawk and pray that you snipe your way into a PF created by a tank or healer before the other thousands of DPS do.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

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

Content selling has gone casual!

Concerning the reason why they didn't do healers or tanks this expac. Based on their statistics, there was no increase on tanks or healers. Only the players who originally played tank or healers played those jobs.

Well, to be fair.

The parameters have changed this time.
Instead of having a job of each role for people, allowing transference both directions.

This time there's only jobs of a single role, meaning transference can only go in one direction.

Thats the thing, people who wanted SAM as a tank were tanks themselves and dps who dont want their que times overflooded with other dps cause hehheh competition and long que times, spewing about there must be balance. Statistics don't lie on how many tank and how many dps.

I personally play DPS mostly, but have dabbled in other roles.

I'm not all the fond of the current tank's aesthetics, Samurai would have been a great tank for me.

[Shurrikhan]

I personally play DPS mostly, but have dabbled in other roles.

I'm not all the fond of the current tank's aesthetics, Samurai would have been a great tank for me.

If not for for the increased relative strength of tanks with the tank vitality shift, I'd probably have just gone on tanking dungeons on my Dragoon. Had CC not been removed, purposely making our skills irrelevant to ensure trinity play, I probably could have been 1 of 4 "tanks", easily allowing for the inflated DPS counts. And I can't imagine a more perfect fit for the SAM aesthetic than a strong DPS who can still take high advantage of occasional tanking.