Let's Talk About SAMURAI

[Droxybrobotnik]

Of course the japanese developers would make samurai overpowered... I wonder if they actually know that the real samurai were mainly mounted archers? I had a duel with a sam yesterday at an ast, we kept going for 15 mins until he just let me try to kill him before he could self heal himself, so toss in a lot of self heal with the list... The PvP mode is new, so balance is yet to be hammered out, but here is an area where I feel they would heavily have benefitted from public testing before rolling it out. Square has a long and storied history with admittedly earned pride, but sometimes they just don't know best and need to admit it.

[Kiao-Ken]

Some are just mad about the one-shot ability. That's all. Else the class isn't "that" strong.

What about it's Bind abilities in it's normal rotation? Purify will only last so long until its on cooldown, but that Bind won't be.

[Sidamel]

It's not a skill that you can simply use at will and there are more classes that can do CC below the purify cd.

Beside how many times do you really do a 1 vs 1?

[Kiao-Ken]

It's an AoE Bind and in CC, constantly.

[NightHour]

Another hotfix patch please with some samurai pvp nerfs.

[Ocelittelot]

I agree totally, looking at BLM and playing it is a nightmare lol. Long cast time, mediocre damage

[Ocelittelot]

What about it's Bind abilities in it's normal rotation? Purify will only last so long until its on cooldown, but that Bind won't be.

As a BLM this happens to me way too often.
SAM: * dashes and binds me*
me: *purify and guard*
SAM: *notices I used "Purify" and dashes and binds me again*
me: *cant guard or anything just insta-dead from a middare and ogi namakiri*

Monk at least is fair and give me a fighting chance and also RDM needs to be nerfed as well.

5 seconds

[Naizakane]

As a BLM this happens to me way too often.
SAM: * dashes and binds me*
me: *purify and guard*
SAM: *notices I used "Purify" and dashes and binds me again*
me: *cant guard or anything just insta-dead from a middare and ogi namakiri*

Monk at least is fair and give me a fighting chance and also RDM needs to be nerfed as well.

5 seconds

Blizzard > Paradox > Superflare. 3 second Deep Freeze. If they Purify it, wait out the purify and then either build another Deep Freeze or use Night Wing and Sprint/Guard during the Half-Asleep timer. Make sure to come out of Guard just before Sleep kicks in, so you have 4 seconds to get out of there.

[Darthgummibear]

I'm generally not one to jump on the whole "this is busted/broken/nerf" train, but after doing a LOT of pvp in both FL and CC over the past few days with several different jobs, SAM is BY FAR the most ridiculously overpowered pvp job in the game. High damage, high crowd control, high mitigation. There's no weakness. No downside. PVP as a whole has been pretty jacked since the update, but this is ridiculous. Did they playtest this crap at all?

[KouYanagi]

That seems unfun tbh, regarding it procing, my entire kit is aoe aside from ruin. Just by existing i stand to fail the "just dont hit him 4head"

'Don't hit him 4head' also includes don't be inside of a group that is hitting him when he has chiten + ult up. You can also consider using your binds as another weakness of Zantetsuken is that its a movement ability.