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

[Shurrikhan]

Nah, once I know the battle well enough I can do that even in Raids... albeit mostly on the first 20~30 seconds of the fight for most of them, A12S can be played like this on surprisingly a long part. It is pretty fun, I do recommend it, just make a quick macro for hiding/revealing the HUD and give it a try, the game feels so fresh.

I personally just play with a toggleable massively minimized UI, hiding any skill that I don't need a progression or cooldown indicator on, my parameter bar (Hp/Mp/Tp still visible via party), the micro-menu, the mini-map, and my chat window. Still have everything I actually need, but the screen looks beautifully clean.

[MomoOG]

How are Samurai animations anymore dull than like Monk?

[Hikuras]

As a monk main.... I want more monk koolness. Sams can go get their own gear. >.> Tho as far as animations.. WHM got the least attention sadly. I feel for them.

[Ayerinn]

I highly doubt we have seen all the job actions...SAM along with every other job is missing a few (on purpose, of course.) Can't wait to see the RDM and SAM LB's!

[LionFury1]

Unlike everyone else here I guess, I did feel a bit underwhelmed by samurai. This isn't reality, it's literally Final "Fantasy," so it seems odd to me that people would really want realistic animations for one class while others (coughPLDcough) bust out literal magic wings and even monk, the classically understated melee class, can rain a beam of energy from their fists...

Yeah I agree with much of what you've said. On another note, I think my choice of the word "flashiness" may have been misinterpreted as fireworks, light shows, and particles within the thread, but what I meant was more so just overall stylistic flair. I think Ninja is a great example of a job that possesses stylistic flair. Ninja doesn't necessarily blind you with all it's fighting animations (except for maybe the ninjutsu), but all of it's attacks look amazing where it incorporates kicks, flips, and other elements into its attacks that are attention getting and makes you feel like a bad ass ninja. The only ability I saw Samurai use that felt like this was its AoE attack where it swings its great katana in a circle. It's swift, acrobatic, and makes you look like a master of the great Katana.

[LionFury1]

How are Samurai animations anymore dull than like Monk?

MNK animations are also a bit boring, stiff, and many of the combos lack fluidity honestly, not to mention the added elements of one too many positionals which makes it slightly undesirable to me. Even the new abilities they added didn't really make me feel like Monk was the poster boy of Stormblood the way that Dragoon felt during Heavensward. Personally I'd like to see more abilities like Tornado kick and dragon kick, but I'm a sucker for eye candy. As far as Samurai goes, I feel like the developers were spending more time on the visual aesthetic of all the job classes they were adding post 2.0, so I kind of had high expectations for them to really make Samurai feel like Samurai. 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.

[ErzaScarlet77]

definitely underwhelming. Midare Setsugeka is a 720 potency skill that needs at least 3 gcd to activate and its simply a 3 sword slash when MNK gets kamehameha, DRG gets alien tentacle blast, and NIN summon giant frog.

shame

[Pomelo]

Yeah I find the animations really bland, everything from the sound effects to the animations; they don't look like they really hurt.

[Felis]

more flashy like this?

[Domeric]

definitely underwhelming. Midare Setsugeka is a 720 potency skill that needs at least 3 gcd to activate and its simply a 3 sword slash when MNK gets kamehameha, DRG gets alien tentacle blast, and NIN summon giant frog.

shame

Yeah I find the animations really bland, everything from the sound effects to the animations; they don't look like they really hurt.

more flashy like this?

Bang. Right on the money. This idea that samurai should have boring, dull, and completely 100% lifeless animations because "irl samurai were masters of skill" is a line of argument I completely disagree with and will never understand.