Let's Talk About SAMURAI

[Sinstrel]

I can understand what you mean by "a noob trap", I understand the mechanic behind the SAM's limit break with Kuzushi. In fact, I've made sure to study SAM and to play SAM to counter it. In fact, DRG's Limit Break is another ability I look for and counter it with Guard, which means I "get got" by a MCH' Limit Break. But, whenever someone else hits that "noob trap" and they get LM'ed, you, who happen to be near that "noob" will still get instant K.O. with them and those around that "noob". Also, 5 seconds is a shit ton of time (the word "shit" was used in a manner of passion, not insult), 5 seconds of SAM being ignored because "noob trap" means uninterrupted damage. Maybe, just maybe, all classes should get this "noob trap" (no, we shouldn't).

Hi Kaio-Ken,

Have you tried using your crowd control abilities on the samurai whenever they use Chiten and have LB ready? Crowd control abilities are things like stun, sleep, bind, freeze, silence, charm, hysteria, and heavy. It isn't recommended to attack the samurai while they have a -50% damage mitigation on them, but if you still decide to go that route anyway (or if your team mates do) maybe you could try to chain your crowd control abilities one after the next for 5 seconds so that your team doesn't die and you can rank up. I think every job has enough of these crowd control abilities to last 5 seconds. So you could totally prevent this situation on your own.

The samurai cannot move or use LB while crowd controlled, and the crowd control is on the came cooldown as chiten so it should be ready again every time the Samurai is ready. I don't think you need to have a gigabrain strat to counter a samurai, it's quite simple actually.