SAM changes - I don’t mind it

[ForteNightshade]

With SAM, the addition of a Meikyo charge, Tsubame charge, and cap skills increased SAMs APM from the previous expansion. I haven't taken my SAM into anything significant this expansion, but from my understanding a chief issue was their damage has not been up to par, and if their APM has increased then this makes absolutely no sense. Sure, adding guaranteed crits onto their skills is one way to circumvent the issue, but it doesn't address the higher APM. And as was pointed out before, if no Kaiten is better than a misused Kaiten, then it becomes pretty clear [from a dev's perspective] that the removal of the skill should improve SAM gameplay over all in terms of the numbers.

Samurai's damage was only low at low. The subsequent buffs in 6.08 brought it back to being the strongest Melee and highest ranked speed kill job once again. It's single-handedly brought Dancer back into the meta. In other words, the job was perfectly fine. I suspect the only reason we're losing Kaiten is due to baby players not pressing it, thus their damage falls behind. Which is rather laughable when you consider inexperienced or outright bad players aren't going to be pressing their buttons properly anyway. At this point, it always seems like the change is an excuse for guaranteed crits to be a thing because "OMG BIG NUMBERS!!!!!"

It's a lazy, poorly thought change meant to simplify for no real benefit.

Remember when gierskogul took 10 seconds off blood of the dragon? Man that was fun and engaging...

Personally? I always thought it was. You actually had to think about your Geirskogul uses instead of mindlessly pressing them. With the improvements in future expansions, that system would have been fine. Alas, it demanded a far higher skill ceiling because executing Geirskogul willy nilly meant a massive damage loss. So... into the trash bin it went.