Studying The Blade- The SAM DPS Guide

[ColdGuy]

Skill Speed is good, yes?

Anyways, can someone with less SS test out an opener for me?

I do a very elongated opener, goes like this:

Hakaze -> Shifu -> Kasha -> Hakaze+Potion -> Jinpu+Kaiten -> Higanbana -> Gekko+Meikyo -> Yukikaze -> Kasha+Kaiten -> Midare -> Gekko -> Hakaze -> Yukikaze -> Hakaze -> Shifu -> Kasha+Kaiten -> Midare -> Hakaze+Guren -> Jinpu ...

The reason i ask is because i remember Jinpu falling off before Guren a couple hundred SS ago.

[Yuxiichan]

AYDEN !?!?!?!?!? MY OLD RAID LEADER AYDEN !?!?!?!?!? WTFFF

[Dzian]

Skill Speed is good, yes?

Anyways, can someone with less SS test out an opener for me?

I do a very elongated opener, goes like this:

Hakaze -> Shifu -> Kasha -> Hakaze+Potion -> Jinpu+Kaiten -> Higanbana -> Gekko+Meikyo -> Yukikaze -> Kasha+Kaiten -> Midare -> Gekko -> Hakaze -> Yukikaze -> Hakaze -> Shifu -> Kasha+Kaiten -> Midare -> Hakaze+Guren -> Jinpu ...

The reason i ask is because i remember Jinpu falling off before Guren a couple hundred SS ago.

A lot of interesting stuff in this thread looks like I need to rethink a few things.

Recently I've been opening with enpi while running into melee range. delays the first gcd a touch but extra kenki. and been revolving around using hagakure and shinten where possible.

Kind of going then:
enpi > hakaze > shifu > kasha > hakaza > jinpu > kaiten + higabana > gecko >shinten > hakaze > yuki > hakaze > shinten > shifu > kasha> hagakure> guren > meikyo > kasha > Shinten > yuki > gecko> kaiton + midare.

time wise its curious it seems my midare goes out only slightly later than other sams I get partied with but in that same time frame I've put out 3 shinten's.. also you appear to be conserving kenki for guren and not using hagakure.. is there something i'm missing?

Although I'll be the first to admit it's got a few kinks and is / was a work in progress till I found this thread it's felt quite effective in various farm parties and stuff I've been in at least. even out doing better geared / melded sams. but it's very different in terms of what a lot of people here are suggesting / using. so I can't help but feel i'm missing something..

The theory behind what I've been doing is that I can either spend 20 kenki and 3 sen on a 1080p midare. or I can converet those sen into 60 kenki +20 from kaiten for a total of 80 kenki. this then mean I can do 3 shintens for a total of 900 potency and also puts me 3 seconds ahead of myself cos there is no midare cast time. in that 3 seconds I can do roughly 1/3 of a combo maybe more depending on skill speed and the gcd time.. so lets say 276.6 potency. (a full gecko/kasha combo is 830) so 276+900 now puts me ahead of midare by 96 potency. This is all a work in progress and my numbers are from accurate because I haven't taken into account auto attacks or skill speed to much.

However it looks like a very different angle to what a lot of people in this thread are doing so either way looks like i'll be doing a lot more reading up and experimenting with things...probably something really obvious that just hasn't occurred to me yet.