Samurai Buff Speculation

[Sylvain]

[INDENT]snip.

I think the 2sec reduction is sounds.

I would see some potency boost but not to all the skills you've listed. Unless you have some theorycraft to back up the net final result of all those potency buff, it seems to be a lot and would put SAM too far ahead other dps job and it seems SE doesn't want SAM and BLM to be too far ahead. Like we should be "first" but not by a lot (and definitely not enough to compensate the lack of raid buff).

Unless all these potency would result in a small gain of a few percent, BLM would need another buff to be on par with you and if anything i'm not expecting more than a few % dps buff to basically make SAM on par (if not 1 or 2% at most) higher than BLM.

Regarding the animation lock this is something most job would benefit from.
For instance, making Sharpcast and Swiftcast have shorter if any animation lock would help greatly in the long run.

[Shurrikhan]

I think the 2sec reduction is sounds.

I would see some potency boost but not to all the skills you've listed. Unless you have some theorycraft to back up the net final result of all those potency buff, it seems to be a lot and would put SAM too far ahead other dps job and it seems SE doesn't want SAM and BLM to be too far ahead. Like we should be "first" but not by a lot (and definitely not enough to compensate the lack of raid buff).

Unless all these potency would result in a small gain of a few percent, BLM would need another buff to be on par with you and if anything i'm not expecting more than a few % dps buff to basically make SAM on par (if not 1 or 2% at most) higher than BLM.

Regarding the animation lock this is something most job would benefit from.
For instance, making Sharpcast and Swiftcast have shorter if any animation lock would help greatly in the long run.

I'll double check the math shortly. I mainly wanted to illustrate the direction of change intended.

While I don't believe a given job should be capped by anything other than its effective in-composition 8-man food&pot rDPS, and thus find any mention of individual DPS irrelevant outside of how it may act as or in place of a certain form of utility (e.g. being able to solo-DPS an add down in time where such would be a massive boon for the party due to certain mechanics, or how split mechanics may push others' rDPS below their norms), I don't want to push SAM above BLM generally, even if uptime may later favor one or the other after the due adjustments. (That last bit cannot be fully helped without too great of detail in fight craftsmanship to be warranted given varying DPS levels over skill and gear.)

Edit: Yes, this should parse out higher than raid tools would leave one to believe necessary (though SAM is more vulnerable to desync than BLM, it's only other Tier1 competitor). Adjusting values now.

Also, yes, Sharpcast, Swiftcast, Surecast, and Aetherial Manipulation animation locks are areas I'd very much like to see addressed on BLM. Oddly enough, Triplecast has never felt nearly as restricting at my ping. Personally, I was under the opinion that the Fire IV buff may have even been too much following the SMN nerfs, and that BLM would have been better served by reducing the relative costs of movement and through further QoL adjustment. They just stand out more on SAM as a 2s GCD is a wholly viable build and the necessary double-weaves can then clip even at very low pings.

[Karhad]

[INDENT]Midare is already overused in most cases. Decreasing its damage will increase skill gap, not decrease it, as would an increase to Shinten and Higanbana potency.

Look at my post, thats exactly what i said. The difference between someone thinking about what to do as Samurai, and someone just aiming to "spam" midare as mich as possible is way too low in my opinion

[Kabooa]

Banana's DoT potency increased.
Gyoten's potency increased.

Yaten's buff to Enpi also grants a larger increase to Kenki generated.

[wereotter]

Banana's DoT potency increased.
Gyoten's potency increased.

Yaten's buff to Enpi also grants a larger increase to Kenki generated.

Higanbana, I would agree, probably does need an increase to the amount of damage it ticks for. If you add up the potency over time of it compared to Shadow Fang, Demolish, and Chaos Thrust, the damage is in line with other jobs. The only benefit is the Samurai doesn't have to reapply it as often.

[ElasmoFan]

Can we get like.. a 2 second increase on Third Eye as well. I know it's not a big deal but a lot of times I miss it just by the tiniest bit.

[ShaolinMike]

Higanbana, I would agree, probably does need an increase to the amount of damage it ticks for. If you add up the potency over time of it compared to Shadow Fang, Demolish, and Chaos Thrust, the damage is in line with other jobs. The only benefit is the Samurai doesn't have to reapply it as often.

The fact that it is in line with other jobs is terrible, considering that the idea behind SAM is that it's supposed to be the highest personal DPS job.

[Arcturius]

I have 2 ideas that I think could work. 1- have the slashing debuff be slashing piercing and blunt resistant damage down. This makes it so they can be in drg spot and also in a pt with a monk the monk could avoid using dragon kick after the first use and then get the dps increase of all the bootshines. 2- since Sam is a selfish dps why do they not get bigger boosts from other classes utility? I feel being the dps carry the buff given to them should have bigger effect. Ex: dragon eye would give you 20% instead of 10% or battle litany would give extra crit damage as well OR while trick attack is up Sam does 15 or 20% more dps. Sams do not have party utility (besides slashing but we know we need someone else's not to lose dps) so if square wants their utility to be dps they need to gain more from the buffs that everyone else is getting to make up for the buff that they arnt putting out. This change would also keep their solo damage in check but in a party it would make up for their own lack of utility. Thoughts?

[CreinCrein]

15% slashing debuff

[DGladius]

Yukikaze combo potency up from 340 to 380
Kasha combo potency up from 400 to 440
Gekko combo potency up from 400 to 440 would be my guess.