An Examination of Kaiten and Action Bloat on Samurai

[Amh_Wilzuun]

I will give that, sometimes during 2-minute burst windows, I run into the situation where I'm setting up for
Midare -> Kaeshi -> Sen GCD -> Higanbana -> Ogi
Where I already have 1 Meditation stack, meaning between Higanbana and Ogi I need to fit in a Shoha and Kaiten, but I only have 1 oGCD due to Higanbana being a cast. I deal with this simply by adding another GCD between Higanbana and Ogi, or shift the sequence so that Ogi comes earlier.
There are many ways to alleviate this particular scenario that does not invlove removing Kaiten.

When this comes up I can also just double weave shoha and kaiten. I rarely need to double weave on sam though and if you have bad ping there are plenty of ways to prevent that like you said. If they wanted to target "action bloat" then shoha seems it like it would have been a better target. Not only can it quickly overcap between iajutsu moves, requiring an occasional double weave, it's also less important to the job easily.

I don't see sam having an action bloat problem in the first place. Monk and Ninja are more busy during their burst windows (please don't take this an invitation to "fix that"). You know what jobs feel very busy even compared to sam? A lot of tanks this expac. You probably double weave more playing on tanks like DRK and GNB to account for mitigation or even just the damage rotation than on SAM. And like I said if they wanted to make you double weave less they should target shoha before kaiten. It's a job where the difficulty comes more from planning your rotation out than pure physical execution imo. Also SAM is the selfish melee dps class. BLM is very difficult and it makes sense because it fills that role for magic dps, why should SAM get dumbed down when it's not even the hardest melee to play as it is?

I just hope that they revert this change soon like hagakure. The forums and reddit/twitter are overwhelmingly against it.