How is SAM not going to be bonkers OP in non raid content?

[Arkdra]

The potencies don't seem that crazy. Having spent some time fiddling with sam rotations, they hit 2 problems that make comparing raw potency kind of moot.

1. Sam's won't be auto attacking as hard or as often as monks, likely won't be pulling the same AA damage as nin since nin has a stronger built-in damage buff and more attack speed. Sam also has drastically fewer ogcd skill uses compared to drg and nin. The ogcd's sam does have hit really hard to compensate but over a 40 second fight a sam will throw out 2360 potency worth of ogcds while a nin will do 3960 and that's assuming he doesn't generate enough gauge to do both Ten Chi Jin and Bavacakra in 40 seconds. If nin does, then that's actually 4510 ogcd potency. And this is using the highest dps sam rotation we've found that also requires an assumption on how meikyo shisui will work that might not even be true and probably isn't if Perfect Balance is anything to go by.

2. Sam's don't have any long cooldown powerful direct damage boosting self-buffs like drg and mnk do. By which I specifically mean blood for blood/dragon sight and internal release/riddle of fire. So the raw potency numbers are essentially all sam has to make up this gap.