Samurai: Guide to Races and Subjob Selection

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Job Overview
Available after completing the quest Forge Your Destiny, the Samurai job focuses on the mastery of weapon skills and skillchains. Samurai excel at the use of Weapon Skills due to their ability to rapidly gain Tactical Points and use them to their advantage.

Strengths

 * Gains TP faster than any other job in the game.
 * Weapon skill positions on the skillchain chart are wide and varied, allowing Samurai to skillchain with nearly every other job in the game efficiently.
 * Access to powerful Great Katana weapon skills.
 * Capable of One-Man Skillchains with Meikyo Shisui.

Weaknesses

 * No built-in natural accuracy enhancing bonuses.
 * Very gear dependent job.
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Support Jobs Options
The following options are just examples and are not the only choices. Feel free to experiment and above all, have fun!

Warrior
Samurai choose Warrior as their support job for Berserk and Double Attack. While early on in levels, Provoke is useful for backup tanking, and later on is good for 1st Voke when teaming up with a Thief. Increased Strength helps with damage output. This choice will probably lead to the most invites.

Thief
Samurai choose Thief as their support job for Sneak Attack. At level 30, when combined with physical weaponskills, produces incredible spikes of damage. Trick Attack at level 60 allows a Samurai to take the hate generated by his weaponskills, and put it on the tank. Increased Dexterity also helps with Accuracy.

Ranger
Samurai is one of the few jobs which can benefit from a Ranger support job. The actual tactical uses of Ranger abilities vary from Samurai to Samurai. One of the most obvious benefits of the Ranger support job is access to the Archery weapon skills. However, Samurai Archery skill caps as a C+ skill, and as a result Accuracy and Attack are affected compared to a Ranger. The usefulness of Ranger support job may therefore be influenced by the choice of targets, as Samurai Archery use will be more effective on lower evasion enemies. Use of Archery for TP gain is also a common tactic, as Store TP operates by multiplying TP gain, and is more obviously useful on long delay, high TP weapons like longbows.

Ranger, like Thief, features Radar positions of hostile enemies, and also allows use of Wide Scan to locate specific targets.