Samurai - A Loyal Master of Arms

[MajisTek]

I believe Samurai should possess the ability to give all forms of damage an opening when striking.

"Samurai employed a range of weapons such as bows and arrows, spears and guns, but their main weapon and symbol was the sword."

I believe this statement should be a segway to update the ability we know as

Tachi: Yukikaze : Delivers an attack with a potency of 100.
Combo Action: Hakaze
Combo Potency: 360
Combo Bonus: Reduces target's slashing resistance by 10%
Duration: 30s
Combo Bonus: Increases Kenki Gauge by 10
Combo Bonus: Grants Setsu

Should simply be changed to...

Tachi: Yukikaze : Delivers an attack with a potency of 100.
Combo Action: Hakaze
Combo Potency: 380
Combo Bonus: Reduces target's slashing resistance by 10% and all other weapon resistances by 5%
Duration: 30s
Combo Bonus: Increases Kenki Gauge by 10
Combo Bonus: Grants Setsu

[Deathgiver]

Oooh permanent trick attack! I think that may be a little(a lot) unbalanced.

[MajisTek]

Trick Attack:
Delivers an attack with a potency of 240.
400 when executed from a target's rear.
Rear Bonus: Increases target's damage taken by 10%
Duration: 10s
Can only be executed while under the effect of Hide.

Is not the same as a slashing/piercing/blunt resistance.

[Coombah]

Oooh permanent trick attack! I think that may be a little(a lot) unbalanced.

Nothing SE isn’t already familiar with

[Deathgiver]

in a typical party, your melee/physical ranged and tanks account for like 70% of rdps so you're giving a 7% rdps buff to the party with 100% up time. If it doesn't stack with slashing,blunt/piercing than it's useless as the other jobs provide their own anyways.

edit: except bard, and giving sam piercing would definitley drop drg from the meta in a bad way. Think SAM now, only with 20% less pDPS

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

God almighty, NO!

Apart from giving Ninjas a run for their money forever, you'd dropkick casters instantly and welcome a full physical meta with MCH again! Samurai's damage would need to be nerfed immensely just to compensate for the sheer amount of rDPS this could provide as a maintainable debuff.

As nice as it sounds this would boost Samurai from playable to op beyond comprehension.

[MajisTek]

I am proposing the idea not the actual numbers, they can do that themselves, I'm looking for solutions in an a form of an opinion. That's all.

[Dualgunner]

FFXIV's Samurai are not the real world Samurai. In FFXIV, they strictly stick to the teachings of the sword, therefore it's thematically okay for them to keep only the slashing debuff.

[SpeckledBurd]

If they had an effect that substantial they’d need to nerf its Damage to have the personal DPS of a Bard or lower.

[Reckion]

Combo Bonus: Reduces target's slashing resistance by 10% and all other weapon resistances by 5%

No. It's already bad enough with DRG and its piercing debuff. We do not need more resistances debuff problem. That would make them broken as all hell and probably give more reasons to use the physical meta even more.