Quote Originally Posted by Kazrah View Post
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.