Samurai

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Overview

Levels in Samurai will enable your character to deal tremendous front-row damage, and to endure a lot of punishment, though at the price of significant speed. Samurais are combo-attackers, brutal offensive units that cut a swath of destruction through their enemies, shrouded in heavy armor to do it. They are a damaging unit, though they frequently take some time to put their most potent abilities into play.

Playing a Samurai

#1: Hit Hard

Your function is damage. You are not as reckless as a Berserker, but you are also not as fast. When you act, you need to make the most of it: pump up your spike damage, and don't worry much about spreading it out.

#2: Don't Let Them Stop You

Due to your speed disadvantage, stopping your inevitable tide of destruction is going to be the first priority for many characters. Be preemptively defensive. Go for immunities, resistances, evade ratings, and block ratings, over recovery.

#3: Be Relentless

Because your only real function is damage, it can seem like the rest of your party is struggling to keep up, or that they're mostly only supporting your engine of destruction. This is mostly OK. As long as you are dealing damage to the enemy, you are performing at the peak of your ability. You have enough defensive statistics to take a few blows on the chin. Don't worry about danger. Just keep at it.

Samurai Base Statistics

Base Stats
HP	25
MP	15
Weapon	1d10
Spell	1d6
+1 Stamina, +1 Weapon Power
Proficiencies
Weapon	Katana
Armor	Plate
Skill	Persuade
Job Tree	Dragoon or Ninja

When picking a tribe or archetype, keep the following in mind:

• Vigor is almost essential for you. You are a melee-damage-heavy class, but your Weapon Power is only slightly better than normal. Without a high Vigor, you won't be dishing out damage like a true damage-dealer.
• Agility is perhaps the least useful for you. You will never be very fast. It is perhaps best just to live with this fact.
• Vitality is quite useful for you, since it will increase your Stamina: your #1 prevention for dying before you can hit.
• Intelligence has its uses, but isn't vital. A few of your attacks deal Spell Power damage, and a good Intelligence will help you milk some more out of them, but you are not a very magical job.
• Mind isn't that useful for you. As a front-row job, you are more likely to be subject to physical attacks, but a decent Mind will avoid a vulnerability to spells.
• Spirit is useful, but only moderately so. While a crit is always helpful, your actions are generally better spent than on trying to get lucky.

Recommended Archetypes/Tribes:

Samurai Combat Menu

Attack
Katana	Draw Out
Defend
Defend	Parry
Bushido
Bushido	Omnislash
Items
Use Item	Change Equipment
Move
Change Row	Action Ability

Samurai Base Abilities

These are the abilities you have when Samurai is set as your primary job.

Base Abilities
Attack	Draw Out	Attack Action	You execute a magical attack that deals Spell Power damage, using the element and statuses that your currently equipped weapon possesses.
Defense	Parry	Defend Action	You gain Evade 10 until your next action.
Trait	Shirahadori	Trait	You have Evade 5 at all times.
Limit	Omnislash	3 Limit Points	You can make 16 attacks, each attack dealing normal damage.

Bushido

The job abilities of Samurai are called, in general, "Bushido." Characters taking Samurai as a sub-job can choose one of the four Bushido skill sets to use.

Bushido
Blade Arts	Damages with physical blows.
Blade Spirit	Damages with magical energy.
Rapid Strikes	Attacks several times in a row.
Iai Strikes	Attacks with a single swift blow.

Bushido: Blade Arts

Samurai can execute a variety of physical attacks by letting magic flow through them.

Blade Arts
Level 1	Braver	Delay 4	Deals Weapon Power damage. At your option, you can add any quantity of Limit Points you possess onto the attack — each Limit Point you add increases the damage by 5.
Level 5	Dismissal	15 MP, Delay 5	Deals Weapon Power damage. If the enemy is currently Charging any ability, they loose the charge.
Level 9	Fingersnap	25 MP, Delay 4	Deals Double Weapon Power damage, and removes all enhancements.

Bushido: Blade Spirit

A Samurai carries the burden of his entire family's ancestors, which he is capable of releasing in a powerful burst.

Blade Spirit
Level 2	Blade Beam	7 MP, Delay 4	Deals Spell Power damage to one enemy.
Level 6	Climhazzard	17 MP, Delay 5	Deals Spell Power damage to all enemies.
Level 10	Dragon Soul	27 MP, Delay 5	Drains Spell Power HP and Spell Power MP from one enemy.

Bushido: Rapid Strikes

Samurai are capable of multiple relentless strikes, giving no quarter.

Rapid Strikes
Level 3	Flurry	9 MP, Delay 5	Attack four times, each attack dealing One-Quarter Weapon Power damage.
Level 7	Tempest	19 MP, Delay 5	Attack four times, each attack dealing One-Half Weapon Power damage.
Level 11	Slice & Dice	29 MP, Delay 5	Attack six times, each attack dealing One-Half Weapon Power damage.

Bushido: Iai Strikes

Samurai know the art of the single slash, with one smooth motion eliminating all opposition.

Iai Strikes
Level 4	Mineuchi	11 MP, Delay 5	Deals Half Weapon Power damage and the target loses their next turn.
Level 8	Dragon Fang	21 MP, Delay 5	Deals Double Weapon Power damage.
Level 12	Finishing Touch	31 MP, Delay 5	Inflicts Death.

Level Summary

Level 1	Braver
Level 2	Blade Beam
Level 3	Flurry
Level 4	Mineuchi
Level 5	Dismissal
Level 6	Climhazzard
Level 7	Tempest
Level 8	Dragon Fang
Level 9	Fingersnap
Level 10	Dragon Spirit
Level 11	Slice & Dice
Level 12	Finishing Touch

Samurai Elite Abilities

After level 12, you may gain the opportunity to take some Elite powers. You must have 12 levels of Samurai, and have Samurai as your base job to use these powers.

Banishing Blade

The Elite Blade Arts ability weakens all enemies.

Banishing Blade	37 MP, Delay 5	Deals Double Weapon Power damage and reduces the target's Weapon Power and Stamina by the same amount.

Meteorain

The Elite Blade Spirit ability calls upon a rain of small asteroids

Meteorain	37 MP, Delay 5	Deals Triple Spell Power damage to all enemies.

Lionheart

The Elite Rapid Strikes ability executes your attacks at full damage.

Lionheart	37 MP, Delay 5	Attack four times, each attack dealing Weapon Power damage.

Shin-Zantetsu

The Elite Iai Strikes ability forces all enemies to face the reaper with a single sword stroke.

Shin-Zantetsu	37 MP, Delay 5	Inflicts Death on all enemies.

Samurai Feats

To gain any of these feats, you must have the prerequisite number of levels in Samurai. Samurai feats enhance or alter Samurai abilities, and govern multi-hit combos and powerful, sudden melee attacks, matching the themes of the Samurai job.

Feat: Vengeful Spirits

A Samurai family with a dark past unlocked these additional Blade Spirit sword techniques.

Vengeful Spirits
Prerequisite: Samurai level 2			Ability
You gain the following additional abilities.
Vengeful Spirits
Level 2	Fang	Delay 5	Deals Weapon Power damage to one enemy, ignoring STA.
Level 6	Sky	Delay 5	The next creature to hit you with a physical attack is dealt Double Spell Power damage.
Level 10	Tiger	Delay 5	Halves the target's HP and inflicts Poison.
Elite	Eclipse	37 MP, Delay 5	Deals Double Spell Power damage to all enemies and inflicts Stop