[Suggestion] AoE/Single-Target Stances for SAM

I can't speak for other classes but the AoE skills for SAM are mostly unnecessary. They don't accomplish anything meaningful, and they are bloating to the skill bars.

I suggest a skill that allow SAM to switch between 1 hand vs 2 hand usage of the Katana.

1 hand = single target
2 hand = AoE(make skills hit nearby targets at a reduced potency.)

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Originally Posted by Xyr

I can't speak for other classes but the AoE skills for SAM are mostly unnecessary. They don't accomplish anything meaningful, and they are bloating to the skill bars.

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They refresh buffs, give sen and enable higher dps on multiple targets. I'm not sure how you can say they don't accomplish anything meaningful, the whole point is to literally make you do more dps. I'd hardly call 3 gcds + iaijutsu button bloat, unless you're talking about guren and the other kenki spender?

Your post is pretty vague by not going specifying what is 'mostly unnecessary' can you elaborate because all aoe seems meaningful imo if it means damaging multiple enemies at once

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Originally Posted by Sora_Oathkeeper

They refresh buffs, give sen and enable higher dps on multiple targets. I'm not sure how you can say they don't accomplish anything meaningful, the whole point is to literally make you do more dps. I'd hardly call 3 gcds + iaijutsu button bloat, unless you're talking about guren and the other kenki spender?

Your post is pretty vague by not going specifying what is 'mostly unnecessary' can you elaborate because all aoe seems meaningful imo if it means damaging multiple enemies at once

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Unnecessary because they are 99% just the aoe ver of the single target skills. There's no need for bloating with 5 skills that do the same thing as single target counterparts, when you could just use 1 skill to switch between aoe/single target.

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Originally Posted by Xyr

Unnecessary because they are 99% just the aoe ver of the single target skills. There's no need for bloating with 5 skills that do the same thing as single target counterparts, when you could just use 1 skill to switch between aoe/single target.

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Well it makes it seem a bit trivial and easy mode, I personally enjoy pressing multiple buttons as it feels more engaging. I can't think of anything more mind numbing pressing 123 for single target and then pressing a buff to press 123 again for aoe and toggling it. I thought SAM was generally okay for hotbar space.

The only problem with this suggestion is that SAM is always using 2h stances for everything except iaijutsu and shinten. It would require a rework for just about every single animation SAM has for the idea to work. Which is not likely to please a lot of people. You may also see people asking for a similar stance button to turn ST rotations into AoE rotations on other classes, just like you see people asking for the rotations in one button thing from PvP.