Hissatsu: Kaiten

[ItsUrBoi]

Kaiten carries no weight or impact. maybe between um 52-60 where kenki is actualy a finite resource.. but 60+ you just kaiten everything without much thought thats not deep or engaging. its just bloat.

But it does. In fact more so than almost any other skill Samurai has right now ( maybe except Tsubame ). While in the opener its easy to miss why it is important, in the 1 minute burst it is basically a question of how many Shintens can you use, while always having enough kenki too boost your next Iaijutsu. Without this mechanic you can literally just dump it all mindlessly on Shinten whenever you want, otherwise you'd have to always make sure you are not at <20 kenki when finishing a combo and having to use an Iaijutsu. Try doing the samurai opener and rotation optimally and you will see that it does require you to stop yourself from using Shinten on cooldown.

Also how often do you even use Kaiten, its used once per minute on Higanbana, and once on every Iaijutsu + Ogi Namikiri... It has an average cast of 4.5 per minute or so. That's one cast every 15 seconds. Look at how often people use it across a fight, seriously.

Reasoning this change on button bloat is weird and not so rational, turning Ikishoten into Ogi Namikiri, or replacing Shoha with Shoha 2 would be better ways to address button bloat without sacrificing job mechanics / complexity.
If you do not play Samurai, nor understand the opener / how it works, please refrain from saying whether or not a button carries no weight or impact. You need a better understanding of the job first.
All this change does is it lowers the skill floor of the job while taking away 1 button and a cool animation.