6.1 Samurai From the Casual Perspective.

Hello!

I have never made a post on the forums before, because honestly, I have not had anything so significant about the game that I wanted to complain. Not that the things weren't there, just not that they bothered me enough. Additionally, I heard that the Dev Team looks here first.

Firstly, I love Samurai, I legitimately started playing FFXIV in order to play it after watching the trailer for Stormblood. It has been my bread and butter, and my favorite class, my comfort zone. I adored the class, it has had it's ups and downs, but nothing that felt super bad to the casual, non-min-maxer, that I am.

Until now.

6.1 Did a few things that I dislike. Firstly, I don't care about parsing, how big my dps is, my raid performance, any of it. I just cared about how I felt playing Samurai. To be frank, I still like Samurai, but I no longer love it. 2 big reasons. Smaller numbers on the big buttons, and no Kaiten.

Kaiten: It felt good to press, like really good, the flourish, the feeling that you were winding up to to hit something really hard. The knowledge you had to keep in the back of your head to keep 20 Kenki to make sure you could use it. It added depth, flavor, and awesomeness to the big hitting buttons. It being gone makes so much of the rotation feel so lackluster and empty.

Smaller Big Buttons: The whole reason Samurai felt so good, and so much better than so many other classes was the whole massive DPS abilities. Being able to see 50k crits was AWESOME. And now we can't do that. I would rather have my basic combos be around 50-100 potency, and the big abilities be 2000. I don't mind the direct crit, it doesn't impact me, other than now I feel like all my big numbers are smaller.

Also while I am here, shoha 2 is a dumb name for that ability. Shohara, or Shoraha, or something is way cooler.

Sorry if this has been covered before, but I am new here, don't really know how the forums work. I'm just really sad that Samurai feels bad to play now. I may just start playing other classes that feel better, but I don't want to.

I really hope that my voice means something.

Fennas