Samurai Discussion

[Sai-Kon]

The opener that was posted by Daioh, he is prioritizing using Yukikaze due to the 3-Sen needed for Hagakure and not necessarily the debuff. I can see issues of overlapping debuff's in the future due to this. Sam would be overwriting Maim out of necessity as there is no other way to attain 3 Sen without the use of Yukikaze (regardless of when the warrior uses it during the opener).

Edit: corrected, Maim changed in SB

Yes, as I said in a previous post it is not like you completely avoid Yukikaze. You will eventually cast it. However, it is a DPS loss going for Hakaze-Yukikaze first given that the WAR is going to open his DPS rotation with Heavy Swing-Maim (Maim applies the Slashing Debuff now in Stormblood). So having two people casting Slashing Resistance at the same time doesn't give us any benefit. WAR is forced to open his rotation with Heavy Swing-Maim, while SAM can theoretically open with any of the 3 combos ( 1. Jinpu-Gekko, 2. Shifu-Kasha, 3. Yukikaze), but number 1 combo (Jinpu-Gekko) happens to be the most beneficial DPS wise. After that one it is better to opt for the second (Shifu-Kasha) and finally casting Yukikaze. That way you get maximum DPS benefit and you also get your Higanbana buffed by both Jinpu and Slashing Resistance that WAR applied.