Does anyone else feel dissatisfied with Samurai after the Live Letter XXXVI video?

I'm just not a fan of flashy moves in general. If I could turn off almost all effects, except for the AoE circles, I would.

Samurai has a certain aesthetic to it. I do believe they could have done more for example the 3 sen skill could have looked better but still looks okay.

I personally thought Samurai was really lame until this past live letter. Seeing the animations in action and in proper context I'm completely in love. I don't really plan to play or "main" it, I might play it on my alt character. Either way I just find it aesthetically pleasing, since I mostly appreciate the aesthetic they were aiming for. Like Yoshi-P I definitely appreciate the whole samurai-cinema aesthetic. The animations just feel really cutting edge and the movements aren't wasted. A lot of animations feel mechanical to me, especially stuff like some Dragoon or Ninja animations. While Red Mage had a lot of flashy ones, to me the Samurai ones just felt a lot more organic.

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Originally Posted by Barachim

I'm just not a fan of flashy moves in general. If I could turn off almost all effects, except for the AoE circles, I would.

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You can do exactly that. Just got to your character config and set everyone's animations to limited.

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Originally Posted by Remus

Samurai has a certain aesthetic to it.

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Auto attacks are an aesthetic?

I feel dissatisfied with the live letter in general because they wasted too much talking about BLM mechanics when there are more interesting classes that could have used some of the time.

The only move I feel needs a bit more flash is the Midare Setsugekka, and that's really only at the end. It feels like the first two hits (which look super cool) are leading to a third really big thing and then it's done.

Everything else looks really awesome. Can't wait to play it myself.

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Originally Posted by Rubiss

I feel dissatisfied with the live letter in general because they wasted too much talking about BLM mechanics when there are more interesting classes that could have used some of the time.

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This. I wanted to see a lot more from Samurai and the classes that didn't even get mentioned, like Dark Knight.

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Originally Posted by LionFury1

Dark Knight, Astrologian, and Machanist during the heavensward launch all had amazing job animations that made you excited to play the classes because it had the wow factor to it, but that trend seemingly was lost upon Samurai.

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I think the Samurai animations are fluid, organic, they have lots of weight to them, and the movements aren't lost in a laser show (much like many of dragoons beautiful animations are). I have to disagree with your interpretation, as someone with a degree in animation, its clear a lot of effort and care went into Samurai, at least visually. I am sorry you are disappointed.

The only thing that made me feel let down with Samurai was the last skill they showed. It just didn't seem worthy of taking all of the gauge. Outside of that Samurai looked great.