Quote Originally Posted by Ceridwen View Post

A friend who liked Samurai best is feeling the same as you described - he hasn't played in days, and he said he's beginning to look at overall class design more negatively - a fear of where they're headed with this kind of change. I know it seems like dumbing down, but Samurai wasn't a class I considered confusing to begin with, so it almost feels more like some kind of laziness on the designer's part. Maybe it's easier to balance with Kaiten gone? I don't understand what they're trying to fix here. If they consolidated the RDM melee, it wouldn't change gameplay (and my fingers would be grateful) - but this does nothing except make the class feel gutted, flat and empty.


(I'm also really happy to see how many of us made forum accts & posted because of this. I loathe gaming forums - I avoid them like the plague they usually are, but this seemed worth the effort)

I used to play SMN main since the beginning of the game up until SB. Then they made the changes for ShB......I was kinda devastated, but I stuck with it and then they made the second round of changes on SMN shortly after and I just gave up with it. They'd ruined a job I absolutely loved for years and i'm still butthurt over it up to this day haha. This is actually the reason I started playing SAM, I tried the job out whilst looking for a new one in Shb and I just clicked with it.

You're right, SAM wasn't a confusing job, so i can't fathom why they would take something that just seemed so perfect and mess with it. I hadn't given it any thought but maybe it's like you said, easier on SE, because unless it benefits them, there's no reason for them to have touched SAM. I also hadn't touched the game in days either after logging in and finding SAM had changed mid running the new 24 man raid. (and feeling totally weirded out)
I hadn't read anything about upcoming changes, its usually just potency changes anyways, and i was playing DRK for the MSQ. I ranted and ranted that day to friends and hadn't logged in until today just to do the easter event. Bad feelings of SAM came back so i went searching online for other people's reactions and felt i wanted to also add my voice to the list of complaints in the tiny hope SE will change SAM back.

I actually picked up SMN in EW, just to level it from 80-90, after not touching it for the pretty much the whole of ShB and what on earth have they done to that job? Could it be any more braindead and empty :/
I fear updates and changes in FFXIV now, any excitement is overshadowed by the fear they are going to ruin SAM or DRK. Just thinking about SAM now makes me bitter, and i have seriously lost the want to log in and run things

i really hope SE see the effort we forum avoiders have put in here to try and bring our Samurai back to its former glory :3