Quote Originally Posted by HolyReign View Post
It's the hyperbole that player's use, that causes doubt like this.

"They removed Kaiten, SAM is no more!!!!!"

It was an ability, to buff the next weapon skills potency by 50%.

I fail to see how the removal of it, suddenly means that SAM is FUBAR'd.

And I know, "But you don't play SAM, so you don't know anything." It doesn't take playing a class, to see how a skill that only effects one ability being removed, doesn't mean the sky is falling.

But to each, their own.

Later.
That's incredibly reductive.

Sure if you break it down to simply the effect, then you are correct, but Kaiten had more subtle implication. Since you needed Kenki to cast it, it meant you had to manage your kenki to make sure you had enough going into your burst phase to buff all your Iaijutsus. Now, you have Ikishoten to give you the Kenki for your 2 min Kenki spender, so the only real use for Kenki is Shinten. There's no longer any need to manage kenki cause it's only real use is now a single skill. They could remove Kenki and just give Shinten a stack system and it'd be the same as the current state of SAM.

Couple that to the feel of using the skill, which a lot of player enjoyed and I can definitely see why SAM mains are upset. The EW changes to kenki cost and the removal of Seigan already dumbed down Kenki management, but this latest changes completely gets rid of it, which means a lot of layers of complexity some SAM players used to enjoy have been removed.