Samurai and Red Mage

[Shurrikhan]

Sigma 2 is the same thing. Takes like 15 seconds for the boss to even appear. Run in get aggro and meditate. Even though can get 50 kenki before he even decides to start the fight. Yet no-one ever does it. I hardly ever see sams meditate even in the big 20 second windows.

Hmm. I've been seeing people use modified Jinpu openers when running with WARs in order to get both Higanbana and Guren up asap, or as soon as raid (de)buffs pop.

I'd keep any buffs on the ogcd side though definitely. Help those who make better use of hagakure and the like really stand out ahead of those that dont

I feel like this part may be more than just a SAM-specific internal balance issue. So long as Skill Speed is unavoidably increased -- and one need only fall below 2.44 to lose the best possible sync with Hagakure, taking lesser fits instead only at around 2.32, 2.18, and 2.0, if I recall correctly -- with gear, oGCDs are going to become a smaller and smaller portion of damage, and their lead decreased, as all other stats will affect all damage, but Skill Speed will only affect GCDs and oGCDs with rates directly proportionate to GCD rate (such as filler Shintens).

(Both sides of this are what I've been aiming for with the suggested changes to Speed generally and Samurai specifically.)