Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
And even if we accept that logic wholeheartedly, it doesn't resolve the issues with the Kenki gauge feeling largely superfluous now. Kaiten provided several key structural points to its usage, and your ability to maintain positionals would reward you with Shintens to burn for additional damage, but you didn't want to just use them frivolously, or you'd end up without the resources to use Kaiten when your Iaijutsu came around. Now, all you really have to structure your Shinten usage is Senei, which is only once per minute. Beyond that, just use Shinten without a care in the world. It begs the question of whether or not the Kenki gauge even matters anymore. Why not just remove it, and make Shinten a cooldown, since Senei is already on a cooldown? Sure there's the mobility buttons, but its not like other jobs don't just have those on a charge system.
during the course of building stickers you'd get around 60 kenki and kaiten costs 20. so nobody who's even trying to do a somewhat decent rotation would ever see themselves running out of kenki to use kaiten.

also, you don't use your shintens "willy-nilly" because you want to maximize the number of shintens during buff windows