@star,
You couldn't resist coming back to the discussion /pet
I haven't seen the anime of Rurouni Kenshin, but I truly loved the live action movies (there were three parts). I think making the samurai a Dodge tank will make dodging useful. For example at the moment nobody uses the mnk dodging feather move because RNG. But what if it will be combined with samurai dodging skills? I think it's something to think about. Perhaps make parry a useful stat vs auto attacks, and dodging skill abilities vs magical attacks?
@Kat, maybe samurai should be like the masked man from Naruto: Madara dodging skills XD! But yes I made this thread so Naoki Yoshida gets a few ideas of what to add or change and stormsblood is still a half year. I know he will get a translation of this thread with the input of players because he genuinely cares about what we want as he mentioned this a few times in interviews! ^o^\