Quote Originally Posted by Ryaz View Post
Button bloat is definitely the most minor reason. It was done to help even out the unpredictable burst windows and help make stats other than crit be more viable (ie, like. Speed Sam). Yoshi-P mentioned he's aware of the critical meta being an issue, but they need to make some fundamental changes to fix it.

Though I'm still wondering why they moved the burst potency to the basic combos... I can only think its to make things more forgiving if you miss your burst somehow.
I agree it wasn't about button bloat and they made midare and such a guaranteed crit+dh to "help" the crit meta. But i can't help but feel they removed kaiten from SAM either because either they thought id be too difficult to adjust midare base potency to account for the crit+dh change with kaiten or because they continue to dumb down jobs and lower the skill floor again. Apparently it was too hard to make sure to have enough gauge to use kaiten properly.