Studying The Blade- The SAM DPS Guide

[ItaruKarin]

So I was just in a Susano ex party with another SAM, and his damage came as a bit of shock to me. I'm used to doing around 4200DPS with little to no melds and full blue gear + Susano weapon, but he just blew everything out of the water, reaching 4800 overall and 5100+ on specific phases like the sword.

I was a bit shocked, so I examined him and his rotation. Turns out the only major differences were his melds (Tier 6 crit on pretty much everything, which is a lot), but mostly a difference in the rotation, when he used Hagakure... Well, pretty much never outside of his opener. Not on 1, 2 or 3 sens, as far as I could see he just kept the Sen for more Midare (He actually used Midare more often than Shinten, which was another thing that surprised me.).

Sooo... Am I wrong in still using Hagakure pretty much on CD (Except when I need to refresh higanbana) to spam Shinten at 35 Kenki? Or is it just the tier 6 melds justifying that huge difference?...

(I tried a SSS parse with both rotation, and came around 20secs left on Susano EX for both rotation, with 1 or 2sec left on the no-Hagakure rotation, so maybe the difference, if there is any, only appears on longer fights?)