Samurai Class Djinni Combination

The Samurai class series is available to your Venus Adepts Isaac and Felix as well as your Mars Adepts Garet and Jenna. This class has extremely high attack and defensive capabilities. Like the Ninja it's primarily a damage dealing class, while the Ninja specializes in AoE though the Samurai specializes in single target DPS.

Due to the number of Djinni required to create the Samurai class it greatly restricts what other classes you can make your team mates. You may want to keep this in mind as one of the large negatives to being a Samurai on someone.

Venus Adepts: 4 Mars; 3 Jupiter (Samurai)
Venus Adepts: 5 Mars; 4 Jupiter (Ronin)

Mars Adepts: 4 Venus; 3 Jupiter (Samurai)
Mars Adepts: 5 Venus; 4 Jupiter (Ronin)

In the original Golden Sun game, only the Samurai class will be available to you; you won't be able to equip enough Djinni to become a Ronin. The Samurai has some of the highest HP boosts of any class, as well as attack rating and defense. But in return it sacrifices Agility and maximum PP amount.

 

Abilities available to a Samurai:

(Level 3) Guardian: Raises a single targets defense by 25%. You can stack this ability up to a maximum of 150% increased defense.

(Level 5) Demon Spear: Raises a single targets attack by 25%. You can stack this ability up to a maximum of 50% increased attack.

(Level 6) Rockfall: Hits 3 targets with 30 Power.

(Level 8) Lava Shower: Hits a single target with 40 Power.

(Level 10) Magic Shell: Raises a single target's Resistances by 40. You can raise a character's resistances in total to 80.

(Level 12) Dragon Cloud: Hits a single target for 80 Power.

(Level 15) Protect: Raises the defense of your entire party by 12.5%. You can stack this ability up to a maximum of 150% increased defense.

(Level 18) Demon Night: Hits 3 targets with 60 Power.

(Level 21) Angel Spear: Raises the attack of your entire party by 12.5%. You can stack this ability up to a maximum of 50% increased attack.

(Level 22) Molten Breath: Hits 3 targets with 70 Power.

(Level 24) Rockslide: Hits 5 targets with 90 Power.

(Level 27) Magic Shield: Raises the resistances of your entire party by 20. You can raise a character's resistances in total to 80.

(Level 33) Helm Splitter: Hits a single target with +30 Attack.

(Level 40) Quick Strike: Hits a single target with your Attack * 1.8.

(Level 48) Magma Storm: Hits 5 targets with 120 Power.

(Level 54) Avalanche: Hits 5 targets with 160 Power.

 

All in all the Samurai is one of the best classes in the game. It's one of the most durable single target damage dealers you can possibly get in the later portion of the game. The biggest downside to having a Samurai on your team though is the amount of Djinni that it costs to create one. It really takes away from other possible class compositions.