Samurai Discussion

[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.