Proposed Samurai Adjustments/Fixes

[xxvaynxx]

You might be thinking of a different skill than Dark Arts? I mean the oGCD removed since ShB, the one that added (most of the times outside tank stance) a flat damage bonus to your next GCD. When people compare Shinten to Dark Arts they usually mean the Blood Weapon burst window, where you weaved in Dark Arts between almost every GCD for... what? 6-8 GCDs?

It was not interactive, active or anything. It was just an extra button press that required no thought put into it. Currently if we hoard Kenki + line up Ikkishoten for a burst window, we can get uuh... 4? 5? (quick napkin math, correct me if i'm wrong) Shintens in a row. Its a tolerable amount. With Hagakure in its old state + Ikkishoten that would add an additional 2-3?

For reference though, I dont mind high APM. I play MCH and SMN on and off. I just dont like when the high apms source is one button, on one resource, that doesn't really interact with anything else in the kit.

Well first, you wouldn't do ikkishoten and old haga together because you'll over fill unless they nerf ikkishoten, so that's a pretty silly point. Nobody in their right mind would do that....60+50.
Unless I'm reading it wrong.

Shinten does make samurai active what?? you have to press it every gcd/or other gcd while making sure you always enough kenki for kaiten for midare, bana and your big burst kenki attack. So there is your interactive as well. It affects your kenki gauge, hagakure also add some interactive since that's what it seems you want.

If you don't mind high APM jobs why does it feel like you're fighting to NOT have hagakure back.

Its and extra button but so what? that extra button makes the job busy and engaging. Honestly, if you rather just flow through your rotaton without pressing anything else, not to be rude but play dragoon.