Samurai Discussion

[Sai-Kon]

Some notes and observations about SAM rotation: I have seen a few people do a mistake with their rotations and it is that they try to treat SAM as a DRG in terms of lining up their rotations perfectly (as it was the case for DRG in Heavensward). SAM has a spammy rotation and the purpose of it is to build SEN and Kenki as quickly as possible. Secondly, abilities like Hissatsu Yaten, Enbi, Hissatsu Gyoten (the dash away, dash in combo) are completely situational and are to be used not as part of our main rotation, but in cases where we otherwise would have had downtime in our DPS while dodging an AoE. The reason why dash in/dash away are situational is not only because it costs us kenki and an auto-attack, it also cost us a valuable GCD towards building a SEN that would result in higher overall DPS. In the span of a fight, if we assume that someone used dash in/dash away combo 3-4 times as part of their core rotation, that equals to 2-3 GCDs of our main rotation and 1 Iaijutsu.