Samurai Buff Speculation

[Shurrikhan]

Adding to the Slashing aspect. People forget it's a straight DPS loss for SAM to apply it. Either you gimp the raid by doing your standard 3-Sen opener or gimp yourself by using Yukikaze early, thus Midare won't align with the tail end of other buffs. For a job whose only purpose is high damage, it's hilariously ironic the one non-role skill it offers actually hurts itself. Slashing on SAM really feels tacked on so the devs can claim it gives something.

If Yukikaze were at least uniquely self-buffed or always acted as if slashing was applied it'd feel less painful to open with a pre-pop Meikyou Yuki-Shi-Ka, but there's no doubt it's been designed only as a last resort, much like NIN was compared to WAR when Dancing Edge was still required separately from stronger DPS rotations.