The funny thing is hearing over and over “why isn’t SE listening to our feedback” like this is the first time in the game’s history the devs haven’t listened to westerner feedback about a job.

Mch’s have been screaming to end ping reliance on their job since heavensward. Drks screamed for scourge to return for years and years (seriously the amount of give back scourge threads were ludicrous), ast’s about their card systems..

Chances are Kaiten will never come back, which lets be honest. You don’t miss the skill you miss the big number the skill provided. I dont really care about Kaiten as a skill but there does need to be alternative uses for kenki other than shinten and kyuten.

There does need to be a better impact of the Iai skills to make them feel like the big number they should be.

Ultimately is samurai dead? No. It’s not. See several of them running around daily and am actually enjoying leveling it myself however i do notice the absence of kaiten and can see there are still flaws that need to be… tweaked. But screaming dead job is disingenuous . There are jobs in this game in far worse shape than samurai.