The only real way to solve DPS queues

[Araxes]

As for what players I know who went Samurai, the majority of them were tank mains who wanted something different.

Absolutely this! The Majority of Players speculated, some even thought its final, that Samurai is gonna be a Tank. Big was the dissapointment when it was just another DPS many would play but only few would actually play right. Now, Sam is stuck with a bad Reputation due to specific People wanting to play a Japanese oriented Job even though they dont play it right.

[Kazrah]

The Majority of Players speculated, some even thought its final, that Samurai is gonna be a Tank. Big was the dissapointment when it was just another DPS many would play but only few would actually play right. Now, Sam is stuck with a bad Reputation due to specific People wanting to play a Japanese oriented Job even though they dont play it right.

So speculation really came from XI players playing a game where seemingly any job could tank along with anyone who ignored the response from Yoshi when asked during Heavensward about Samurai that he was thinking something more from the Edo period for the job in the game. The nerdrage from those players though was just delicious. Oh so delicious....

Anyway, if we were to get a new tank and healer for 5.0, queue times might not be too bad for maybe a month or so before things go back to normal unless they pull out something that makes the roles themselves more appealing.

[RitsukoSonoda]

So speculation really came from XI players playing a game where seemingly any job could tank along with anyone who ignored the response from Yoshi when asked during Heavensward about Samurai that he was thinking something more from the Edo period for the job in the game. The nerdrage from those players though was just delicious. Oh so delicious....

If I remember right in FFXI SAM was originally intended to tank while ninja was intended to be a dps/support style job. However SAM ended up being a lightweight in the tanking department due to a poor tanking kit at release and limitation of only wearing up to medium armor while players found blink tanking as a ninja was very effective in numerous situations but NIN tanks often were termed the tank for rich players due to expenses on tools and the cost of the utsusemi ni scroll on the auction house.