Quote Originally Posted by SaitoHajime View Post
not much of an argument when we have know idea what samurai would of been like as a tank. drks core is a parry/magic based tank. I highly doubt that sam would be using any kind of magic so what's left ? just parry, the only thing in common with drk. everything else minus the defensive cds and repraisal(probably called something else) would be completely different.
DRKs core is resource management, namely MP. SAM is also famous for resource management (namely TP), it's not a stretch to see how the two handed sword, resource management job used to be SAM.

Let me take a step back and ask you directly, rather than assuming. Imagine SAM was a tank that managed TP like a resource, and had ways of restoring and expending TP so it could be used as a resource to power up attacks, would you enjoy playing it? Because that is how SAM would work best as a tank, and looking at DRK, it is very likely how 3.0 SAM was planned to be.