Quote Originally Posted by Valence View Post
but would be the old DRK's Dark Arts spamm, that everybody hated with a burning passion.
And could have been addressed, like Dark Arts, in several ways that were not just 'remove it entirely with no replacement'. Also, Dark Arts is just replaced by Edge spam now, no? We wanted to dump DA in raidbuffs then, and we want to dump Edge in raidbuffs now, so it's not exactly like much changed

As for this:

Quote Originally Posted by Eorzean_username View Post
When you really look at Kenki historically, the spread was really:

• 10 — Gap-closers which were previously self-flagellating to use, and avoided as much as feasible. The Celestial Revolution of Kenki spends.

• 15 — Essentially a gimmick.

• 20 — The actual floor of your gauge, essentially always-available, and relatively-easy to recover from mild misplays due to its low cost, unless you really, truly botched something.

• 25 — The vast majority of your Kenki spends, since the Job's inception.

• 50 — Your big hefty burst, which previously made sense to justify banking and building to this extra cost.
The only parts I agree with is 50 and 25. There were times when you'd want to purposely spend yourself under the 'safety net' of 20, knowing you'd get back to 20 before KaitenTime, and that is what we call skill expression. 15 and Seigan was literally the skill ceiling of the class, knowing how to use that effectively was what seperated the good from the great. Merciful Eyes was the 'gimmick'. And the gap closers were useful if they gained you a GCD (in), and could be used to create a 'filler GCD' in the SHB onwards when the 60s loop enforced by Tsubame came around (dash out). Now I'm not good at SAM and haven't been ever since SB ended, but even I can see that Kaiten, Seigan, Gyo/Yaten all had their places