Samurai Buff Speculation

[Thela]

Threat reduction makes more sense on Yaten, as it's a disengage.

Not really, the goal should be to control it before it becomes an issue, rather than an oh shit moment where you have to disengage away from the boss and thus lose damage.

[Kabooa]

Not really, the goal should be to control it before it becomes an issue, rather than an oh shit moment where you have to disengage away from the boss and thus lose damage.

Putting it on Hagakure might as well remove threat from the Samurai, because they use it on cooldown.

[Shurrikhan]

Putting it on Hagakure might as well remove threat from the Samurai, because they use it on cooldown.

Agreed. It's used close enough to on CD that it'd be a passive modifier in effect.

Personally, I think it should be something that forces a small sacrifice of DPS on the Samurai or tank's part if no Ninja is there to cover the threat accumulation. For instance... Merciful Eyes.

Yaten would be my second choice only because I don't like for rotational elements to mess with Samurai's movement skills, and I'd hate for it to become something that would, in such content as PotD or the new Jenga Tower, remove its last vestige of kiting ability. Ideally, I'd like it to be a combination of flat and scalar enmity decrease.

[Kabooa]

Personally, I think it should be something that forces a small sacrifice of DPS on the Samurai or tank's part if no Ninja is there to cover the threat accumulation. For instance... Merciful Eyes.

There's already little enough reason to bother with Seigan, though who knows, that might change.

[Wayfinder3]

I Don't believe it would be wise to tame samurai's dps for enmity suppression. That dps is all they have and making them give it up to do something a more viable job could do passively is incredibly silly, MCH, SMN, & BLM are all better than sam for the 4th slot and they dump freely while providing raid and personal dps relative if not greater than Sam. Mnk on the other hand is stupid because it will probably not see any use if it's not placed practically. unless it's dump like lucid, it's only going to cause contention. Mnk should be paying dps for brotherhood, not enmity.

Putting it on third eye/ saigan, is probably my favorite alternative since doing that will inadvertently raise the skill floor on samurai. Alot of people see the job as midare on cd even though 3rd eye actually plays a respectable part of samurai's kit. If it's going to be on merciful eye, allow merciful eye to be used in succession with saigan.