Samurai 5.0 Changes

[Nominous]

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.

It's not that Hagakure didn't add depth. It's that depth isn't always synonymous with fun, necessarily. It's that "meaningful" choices aren't always "fun" choices to have to make. And in that sense, I have more fun with Midare than I do with Hagakure. It's okay to feel differently about that, but it's not like it's hard to understand why people like it's removal.

Hagakure sacrifices the huge damage, finisher-type ability you spend time building towards, to spam a bunch of smaller hits that (even if they are a DPS gain) don't feel as impactful, and maybe less importantly, just looked lame in comparison. That aside, not even accounting for SkS, Hagakure was awkward at BEST, after your first/second use. And I don't think people viewed it as a positive experience that they could, "Just change a couple GCD's in your rotation" to make it work.

I can't see any downside with Ikishoten. It's going to line up with Meikyo, and Tsubame, and every time you can use it, Senei. We're gonna have a reliable rotation that builds to that big conclusion every 60 seconds, while still being able to shinten spam in-between every Senei.