Studying The Blade- The SAM DPS Guide

[Chronons]

Do you have a link to this channel? I've tried looking for it on reddit, but all I get is an error whenever I try to join.

Yes, one of the discord mods posted the link to it back in the old SAM discussion thread but it inevitably got buried.
http://thebalanceffxiv.com/

Any info on stat weights yet?

My understanding via the discord is that Dervy and a team of others are working on it. So far Direct hit and Critical hit seem to be the best options with Direct hit surpassing Crit once you get to a 725 Crit. I believe Skill Speed has been mathed out and deemed sub optimal. All of that is subject to change though, check back with the discord to see the updates.

Does anyone have the 3 Sen Opener? I wanna give that a shot.

Yes, these are both Dervy's openers and they are agreed upon by the theory crafting community over at the discord I linked. The 3 Sen opener is better for burst and the 1 Sen is better for sustained damage. I believe the 1 sen surpasses the 3 at the 1 minute 30 second mark. So 3 sen is better for fights with early phase changes, 1 is better overall. The spreadsheets for these are in the SAM section of the discord pinned in the discussion tab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qCqkgoBkgs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0SaUWg9NSQ

[abzoluut]

slashing only affects the initial hit of higanbana. if you delay using higan it may not hit the TA window and slashing is the least important of the three buffs for damage purposes.

That makes sense. Thanks.

Yes, one of the discord mods posted the link to it back in the old SAM discussion thread but it inevitably got buried.
http://thebalanceffxiv.com/

Great, thank you!