A kenki retrospect: Another cry to please revert Samurai 6.1 changes

[SiriusBreeze]

And then 6.1 happened, and the last bit of thought that went into Kenki management has disappeared. Because Ikitoshen gives us enough Kenki for Senei anyway, we don't have to track Kenki. We don't really have to track much really. The self-buffs are so easy to maintain now you have to try to get rid of them. We still have our dot, thats good. We have Tsubame-gaeishi... I'm not that big a fan of Tsubame-gaeshi. Wirth 6.1, we lost Kenki, we lost our mechanic, we lost so much of what we loved about Samurai, and I have this glamour chest full of katanas I don't know what to do with...

And I never asked for that. I never wanted that. I have never seen a Samurai complain about Kenki or Kaiten. I have seen much criticism for Tsubame-Gaeshi, why wasn't that touched up in some way!? Samurai was being touted out the gate as this high-skill ceiling class for try-hards, the perfect compliment for the other expansion job Red Mage which has garnered a reputation for being easy-mode. That's great! Awesome! We should have jobs for every flavor of difficulty! Need an easy job? Red Mage and White Mage will see you through! Want to spice things up a little? Dip your toes into the Monk with its unique combo structure or the Ninja and memorize your mudras! Are you a try-hard optimizations addict? Samurai was your friend... for a time...

I hate seeing the "kenki-management doesn't exist" argument, because once upon a time it did, and it mattered. Over time, slowly, that was stripped away from Samurai. The sentiment has been nearly unanimous: no, please no, revert it now, please. Multiple people all over the world have made their first posts on the forums about how much they dislike the job's changes. And in the process so many amazing suggestions have been made to fix up problems that we Samurai players do perceive.

Consolidate Shinten/Kyuten with Senei/Gurren! Ikitoshen can transform the abilities. Combine a bunch of buttons that all basically fill the same role. Considering that they all cost the same amount of Kenki, what's the issue?

Consolidate Shinten/Kyuten with the Shoha abilities. My favorite idea ever! Shinten upgrades to Shoha when we have enough sword meditation stacks. Give us a new mechanic in trying to minimize the number of Shintens we do and maximize out Shohas. It would combine a bunch of buttons that currently take no brain-power to use into something that takes at least a little skill.

Please, take these ideas, run with them, do something with them. These are the problems we Samurais see, not Kaiten, not Kenki.