Originally Posted by
Ophannus
In all honesty, DRK would have made a better DPS and SAM would have made a better tank.
SAM usually has "Blade Grasp", 'Third Eye", "Meatbone Slash", "Seigen", "Sword Slap" which are very tanky abilities. Meatbone Slash would almost be like a reverse Spirits Within. Besides, thematically, DRK is about honing your dark energies and sacrificing yourself for power. Samurai is about facing your opponent head-on, fair-and-square, and honorably. If SAM is a DPS in FFXIV, how can they justify, lore-wise, using rear and flank positional attacks? Attacking an opponent from the side/rear makes sense for DRGs because they're feinty and Ninjas attack from the shadows. But Samurais are supposed to only use honorable tactics, so it would make sense if they were tanks since tanks never have a positional attack-they attack from the front only.