Quote Originally Posted by Exiled_Tonberry View Post
There's a huge difference between keeping Chakra, and keeping Greased Lightning.
Or keeping Ninki, and losing Huton (though admittedly you can easily pop this back on).
At worst, if you lose GL, you pop Perfect and you're back in nearly full form in 3 GCD's, or thanks to form shift you go through a quickly ramping 7 GCD window to get back to Max power.

Or time Earth Riddle and probably won't lose GL3 in the first place.

Ninja? Precast Huton when it hits around 15 seconds and your good to go. Or use Huton asap after the boss jumps and sit down and sip some tea, because no break is so long you'll lose that 70 second buff.

When it comes to ramping, SAM has none of the above options. Meikyo is a huuuuuge dps loss to use on Shifu+Jinpu, and when buffs fall off when Sen are active, you still need to make a judgement call based on what your Kinky looks like post Meditation, how many sen are up, how quickly you can dump excess Kinky so you don't overfill, etc.