Quote Originally Posted by Darsien View Post
It wasn't, though. SAM was the worst Melee DPS by a large margin. Even at the end it forever fell under the shadow of SMN, BLM, NIN, and MNK for a slot. It was only ever seriously used on O12S's door boss. It definitely needed changes and I firmly believe current SAM is better then Stormblood SAM.
To be fair, FFlogs can be faulted for that to a certain extent. Prior to Shadowbringers, logs only credited personal DPS as its sole ranking factor. This meant all selfish jobs weren't considered valuable since they actively hurt the logs of everyone else. Had that system stayed in place, Black Mage and Samurai would once again be suffering.

Now with that all said, Samurai certainly needed some buffs damage wise but rotationally, it was fine. The whole change to Hagekure made very little sense, especially given the new system is far less intuitive and rather clunky. Of course, that's only my opinion.