Samurai Discussion

[Furious]

I made a quick video showing that Kaiten does in fact affect our dot Higanbana. For both applications I only used the slashing debuff combo befor applying the dot each time.

I forgot to pre build kenki so I ended up using an Enpi and the slashing combo twice in a row to get my 20 Kenki befor applying the Kaiten boosted Dot tick on a dummy. Have tested this around 10 times each way and they always yield the same results. Without the Kaiten you'll see the dot hit for somewhere in the 200-300's with the odd one being 400ish but with Kaiten I have yet to see it drop below 400 a tick with the highest being in the 900's a few times and in the video there are some mid 800 ticks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2F2al0nSig

Not that I disagree with you, but it's impossible for a 50% buff to take a 400 max to mid 800s, so something else is also affecting the numbers.

Edit: The highest value you got in your non-kaiten test was 457, which means the highest number you should get in your kaiten test should have been ~685... yet your highest kaiten dot tick was 857. To get 857 from kaiten and the slashing debuff alone your max crit dot for non-kaiten should have been around 571 damage. Of course there is a lot of variance in getting a crit at the same time as a high damage roll for a given tick, but going from 450 to 571 goes well beyond that.

TLR; yes, kaiten almost definitely affects higanbana's dot, but likely not in a purely multiplicative way...