To The Devs, When Are Jobs Complete? Concerns About Frequency Of Job Changes.

[Grimoire-M]

Good post. You're one of the few people who seem to understand all the reasonings for the Samurai changes. The idea was good - I recognize, as a Samurai player, that the job's burst needed to be addressed.
The problem is they went about this is one of the worst possible ways they could have.

I have to disagree. The problem with piercing/Slashing is it was exclusive utility. Only certain classes could exploit those buffs at all. By contrast anyone can be a Dance Partner, and the ideal candidate is dictated by the context of that player’s performance alone. Blunt was also a strong counter example to that back in the day, since the only way anyone outside the Monk could use that buff was through rod/booksmacking and DRK provided int down as well as fitting fights better, it wasn’t something that kept Monk relevant.

Additionally the problems with Dancer/Bard still aren’t fixed, They just moved on to the next top DPS with high burst, Ninja.

Ironically, there is a better solution that actually involves Kaiten itself. Change the boost to be the auto crit/dhit effect and refund a portion of the Kenki if you would have landed the crit/dhit on that attack. This would require rebalancing the Kenki cost to 25 or 30 (so the refund would be 10 on a dhit and 15-20 on a crit) to keep the proportional gain intact but that would still reduce the number of Kaitens you get to use overall.

That kind of effect does suit a proc based job better but by using the data we know SE already calculates by default means it’s not nearly as expensive to implement as Gruntler’s suggestion. I could see a lot of auto-crit abilities getting this effect.

[butchersblock]

I have to disagree. The problem with piercing/Slashing is it was exclusive utility. Only certain classes could exploit those buffs at all. By contrast anyone can be a Dance Partner, and the ideal candidate is dictated by the context of that player’s performance alone.

It's not just player performance though. There is almost no world where a Dancer would've considered DRG over a SAM given skill parity. What they did with Samurai did not fix this issue, as you've pointed out Dancer just moved on to the next biggest burst job - Ninja. It was a step in the right direction, albeit executed very poorly. There needs to be less emphasis on cramming everything onto 2 minute cooldowns, and the DPS shouldn't almost exclusively come from those raid buff windows.