Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
Losing Hagakure. I'm not sure why people are saying that its removal was a boon to Skill Speed. With its removal it feels like half the thought behind Samurai has gone out the door, all just for the appeasement of grey Midare spammers.

I've run every amount of Skill Speed from ~500 to 3k and there's never been a point where I felt I was inescapably screwed by more than 1-2 GCDs by my Skill Speed's alignment with Hagakure. At many a comfortable breakpoint anywhere from min to max SkS, I could have it timed perfectly to the GCD. Yukikaze (and, on a fight-by-fight basis, the buffed Yaten-Enpi) are surprisingly effective tools for alignment and the greater your speed, the more modular/"building block" choices you have by which to round out your macrorotation and align it to Hagakure. And I enjoyed having to account for those things.
This.

Honestly it still boggles my mind when I see comments like "Hagakure doesn't add any depth to the job". I mean, really? Then please explain to me why you're still having so much trouble grasping the concept and properly utilizing a skill that has no depth or complexity at all. The "but muh Skill Speed" argument is 100% invalid. As already shown, you can easily skew your rotation around it and still use Hagakure effectively even with very high skill speeds. It's just that most people can't be bothered to actually think about it and just want a button to press when it comes off CD.

Also, the Sen management changes will not only degrade Samurai's rotation back to level 60, they are also gonna make Samurai use Midare more often. Like, literally SPAM IT. More than ever with the double Iaijutsu skill. I don't know about other people but... using something so often, like your best skill, can quickly make you grow tired of it. The amount of Midare we use at the moment feels just right. More than doubling this amount will get repetitive really soon. But that final bit is just me.