Samurai class when?

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They do not function like wow specs which is even funnier that u made this comparison lol.

Non of these have anything in common lol, not even resource bar. This was the biggest grasp of straws i have ever seen ngl

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But they do, they are bound to 1 role and don’t have any variety like subclasses to them.

Of course they are not similar, first is a tank and other is mdd, proto warrior and arms warrior don’t have similarities in gameplay too besides resource bar but if I’ll start to seek similarities in jobs of the same role in FFXIV we’ll come to conclusion that they are all homogenized

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Thats a nice way to twist 1 character able to have multiple classes (something blizzard should do ngl).

so we really gonna look past them having multiple of the same abilities such as shockwave,battle shout,charge,intimidating shout,thunderbolt, heroic leap, intervene,impending victory, etc?

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One is a tank class, the other is a DPS class. In XIV it wasn’t redundant, in WoW it would 100% be. We already have like five melee DPS specs, among plate users alone, that use swords. When sam came out, XIV didn’t have any melee DPS job that used swords.
Sure, they could design the most basic and boring rotation ever, with a sprinkle of pink petals here and there, and call it Samurai, so XIV fans would pop their eyes and keep shouting “Midare setsugekka” in voice chat, but why?
Samurai don’t even exist in WoW.

I can understand if we’re asking more oriental flavour in weapons and armours, more Pandaria cosmetics and so on, but why would somebody need a samurai class in WoW? How would it be made unique compared to all the other similar ones? You make it build tsuba charges instead of rage and the big spender makes a gong sound? What’s the point?

Even if for some reason you want to make a samurai-like warrior, there is absolutely no reason why you couldn’t do it with a warrior, be it for RP purposes or class mechanics.

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we already have plate, mail, leather hero class
now is time for CLOTH class

necromancer?? psychic??? blood mage??? ;)??

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It’s not a “twist”, it’s literally what it is, ffxiv jobs can’t be called full-fledged classes compared to wow. Their progression is fully streamlined, they don’t have much going on besides of their set of skills (talent trees for example), they are literally wow specs.
And no, wow thrives with alt creation, there is so much personality to wow races that it’ll be crime to allow switching, and how would you do it with death knight, demon hunter, or even more simple things like paladin to warlock and reverse.

So just because they have similar set of mobility and utility skills they are similar in gameplay or I can’t catch your line of thought? FFXIV has “role skills” too by the way.

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Blademasters

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They still don’t have another dps sword user lol.

Neither did evokers or dracthyr race.

Y’all need to learn there’s a difference between chinese dynasty armor and japanese shogun.

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man so much personality in that panda, mechagnome or hell even the furry foxes.

Leave em as it is, unique classes for unique races and let them learn the mainstream classes

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they are angry all the time, it doesn’t matter what you say kids in here ,
They always take it to themselves

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The burning blade orc clan blade master is basically a monk with a samurai look.
The WoW team only needs to allow monks to use two-handed swords as attack weapons and you have one.

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Can you be a tsundere for me?

Blademasters are highly inspired and designed after Samurais. Mainly due to the fact that Samwise Didier (who designed them) was/is very much into those types of movies.

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Get yo weeb poop out of here

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Says the guy playing a heavily weeb inspired race…

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I didn’t mean to imply otherwise, if that’s what you’re thinking.

You’ll have to agree that we didn’t already have classes even remotely similar to evokers, in which the evoker fantasy could already fit.

Y’all need to learn that China and Japan don’t exist in WoW, and as much of an influence real life cultures have on the game’s lore, such explicit references should be avoided whenever possible, especially since the game already accomodates some specific fantasies through “generic” classes. Want to play samurai, blademaster, knight, barbarian? Play warrior. Want to play ninja, spy, pirate, swashbuckler? Play rogue.
We don’t need a new class for every possible variation.

We get a new class every half a century, we don’t have bards, tinkers, spellbreakers and so on, and we’re here discussing a fourth warrior spec that already exists.

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Samurai class never.

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NEVER BAKA!

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Aww, you’re so cute. pat head

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Still isn’t changing that they’re out of place and their class playstyle does not fit the norm of wow.

Pandaria is literally based on chinese fantasy, the monk class are also literally based on kung fu.

We got Paladins which the literal name is a titlefor a person fighting for a cause as a knight of a king, Hell even in DnD Paladins are sub warrior classes this logic that they’re unique and samurai is just a warrior sub class is dumb asf

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Was about to get mad at the Kung Fu part, but you didnt add the ‘‘Panda’’ part to it. Samwise made the first ‘‘Pandaren’’ when his daughter was born.

(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wowpedia/images/8/81/The_First_Pandaren.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20210221225203)

And I wouldnt say just ‘‘Chinese fantasy’’, I’d say Chinese Mythology and Legends.