Samurai Discussion

[EdwinLi]

1. It does have positionals. Just because they don't affect potency directly doesn't mean missing their positionals don't hurt. The loss of Kenki on missing positionals means less Hissatsu skills, and less DPS.

2. It remains to be seen just how far the gap will be from other DPS, but it needs to be high to offset its complete lack of group utility. Otherwise we fall into another Heavensward Monk scenario where their damage wasn't enough to make up for how good Dragoon and Ninja's party contributions were.

1) If you look at each skill the skills will increase Kenki no matter what and there is no mention of positionals required to increase the Kenki.

The positional requirement most likely got removed sometime between they mentioned it to current testing.

The increase to Kenki is now a passive skill Samurai obtain in 52 and 62


2) High potency is nice and all but when the potency is bigger than all other melee DPS in the game there may be some issues later with balancing the Job when they finally introduce a Party Utility skill unless they fully intend SAM to be the selfish DPS Job and focus on itself for the rest of the game as it get older.

We also have to consider how big the difference having larger potency skills than other melee DPS Jobs can be as their Utility can only last for a short time compared to long term effects of always having higher damage than other melee DPS jobs that Samurai has.