Samurai Discussion

[Daioh]

Dervy came up with a opener that capped out around 280+ pps, should cehck out the Balanced Discord and jump into the SAM discussion. Alot of openers have been debated but so far no one has beaten his and it seems like it will be the standard.

https://discord.gg/CjQkEn3

I have searched through the discord but have been unable to find this opener,would you be able to post it for us?

[Tsilyi]

I have searched through the discord but have been unable to find this opener,would you be able to post it for us?

you have to go to #registration and type ~join Samurai

[Keramory]

Need a bit of help as someone going back into DPS after so long of healing...

I'm a bit ignorant so please bare with me.

Does it look like with the new changes... is there a reason not to fill every DPS slot with samurai over the other DPS? Is the other DPS buffs/debuff outweigh samurais DPS (because from what I understand they hit much harder)

To further this, if it doesn't warrant everyone going sam... how many sam? Just 1?

Please keep in mind the last time I went heavy DPS was in 1.0 when we stacked monks or black mages... and lost the elemental wheel as a result

[MiruWest]

Need a bit of help as someone going back into DPS after so long of healing...

I'm a bit ignorant so please bare with me.

Does it look like with the new changes... is there a reason not to fill every DPS slot with samurai over the other DPS? Is the other DPS buffs/debuff outweigh samurais DPS (because from what I understand they hit much harder)

To further this, if it doesn't warrant everyone going sam... how many sam? Just 1?

Please keep in mind the last time I went heavy DPS was in 1.0 when we stacked monks or black mages... and lost the elemental wheel as a result

Theorycrafters are currently saying that in a straight up 1:1 comparison, SAM is indeed ahead of the other DPS. But once you factor in the raid damage given by things like Battle Lit and TA, then SAM is only ahead slightly by maybe 50 or so DPS. But this is also going off numbers from a very old build so no one will know for sure until patch day.

[Sigmakan]

See a lot of people doing Higan after 3rd GCD, but I think its worth waiting till after 4th or 5th. There will be more raid buffs up at that point. I plan on starting like:

Hakaze>Jinpu>Gekko>Hakaze>Shifu>Higan>Kasha

Edit, I keep mixing up these samurai move names.

[ShaolinMike]

See a lot of people doing Higan after 3rd GCD, but I think its worth waiting till after 4th or 5th. There will be more raid buffs up at that point. I plan on starting like:

Hakaze>Jinpu>Gekko>Hakaze>Shifu>Higan>Kasha

Edit, I keep mixing up these samurai move names.

Dervy's rotation has it coming even later than that to catch more buffs.

[Arcana]

One question:

1. Starry Eyes has 200 potency -> 25 kenki + waste open eyes
2. Hissatsu Shinten has 300 potency -> 25 kenki.

Same CD on both.

So, should i remove from my hotbar Starry Eyes? ^^; It doesnt make any sense Starry Eyes.

[Nyarlha]

As stated multiple times, english tooltip is wrong. Japanese tooltip from a more recent build puts Starry Eyes at 15 kenki.

[Arcana]

As stated multiple times, english tooltip is wrong. Japanese tooltip from a more recent build puts Starry Eyes at 15 kenki.

That makes more sense :P Thx