Quote Originally Posted by Ogulbuk View Post
I'm just gazing at SAM combos. Their strongest 3rd step is 400 potency, none of their consumers is that strong, although they seem to be instant use abilities off GCD. Their faster combo builder is a 2 GCD, though, fastest War builder is 3 GCDs. All in all: seems its a way bigger cost for the War to waste it's resource on this than it's for SAM.
As a general rule of thumb, 5 Kenki is equivalent to 60 potency of damage. Their biggest spenders are an 800 potency oGCD, a 50% buff to the next weaponskill used, and a 300 potency oGCD attack. Mismanagement of Kenki can result in a massive delay of a 1,080 pot Midare, 1,410 pot Higanbana, and in the worst case scenario, delaying an 800 pure potency attack by as much as 7 GCD. This doesn't factor in that most of your big GCD attacks, namely Iaijutsu, also don't generate kenki on their own, so delaying those with no Hagakure is also a DPS loss.

You also forget to mention that their fastest combo builder only builds up 15 kenki, rather than the 20 of the other, stronger combos, making it much weaker.