Samurai changes are unacceptable in the current iteration

[Hezhi]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...on_main_story/
https://www.famitsu.com/news/202208/09271375.html

Devs are talking about some combat changes. The upcoming crit changes going to be explained soon, more information on DRG/AST reworks. Still no mention of SAM...?

Personally I'm able to live without Kaiten, but the reason of removal being button bloat stirs me.

Things you could consolidate:

Shoha -> Shoha II: Upgrade, like PLD Expiacion
Guren -> Senei: Upgrade, keep Guren range but make it cone for wider AOE and obviously potency upgrade
Ikishoten -> Ogi Namikiri: button combo

Also for the love of god, give me back Tenka Gokken's cone AOE, this is as awful as the Overpower change for me.

Agreed... And it's less about Kaiten being great, more Shinten spam being really bad. Just give us something, anything.
The reason they're not merging Ougi Namikiri with Ikishoten is because we're getting single target ougi next expansion :^)

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...on_main_story/
https://www.famitsu.com/news/202208/09271375.html

Devs are talking about some combat changes. The upcoming crit changes going to be explained soon, more information on DRG/AST reworks. Still no mention of SAM...?



Agreed... And it's less about Kaiten being great, more Shinten spam being really bad. Just give us something, anything.
The reason they're not merging Ougi Namikiri with Ikishoten is because we're getting single target ougi next expansion :^)

Crit changes most likely being something in the line of bonus damage % if you had a crit rate buff while having maxed crit rate. I hope they do similar for Direct Hit (and it hopefully also affecting materia).

"Single Target Ogi Namikiri". Blergh. We really don't need more ST + AOE variants for long cooldowns.