Thread: Samurai 5.0 Changes

Originally Posted by Eliadil

This does seem like a strange choice then, especially since the 51 liveletter where they introduced charged actions, that were made to drift away from the concept of "core rotation" if I recall.

It seems that so far, the lion's share of abilities on charge are gap closers and mobility (while Kassatsu, and True North are the outliers). I don't think they said it was to go further from 'core rotations', but to make it less punishing to hold cooldowns for certain abilities. Mostly the mobility based abilities that have damage tied to them, where holding them for movement utility would result in lost usage (and lower overall DPS) over an entire fight.

That being said, I think Hagakure was designed and intended to be a kenki generator, with a cost. Strictly, and explicitly that. The tooltip indicates that clearly and obviously enough. The fact that it provided flexibility to the rotation was what I'd consider a (beneficial) oversight. And I definitely think the fact that it left you DPS-positive compared to Midare wasn't intended. The fact that we're left with Ikishoten, which retains the kenki generation, but drops the Sen consumption I think speaks to that pretty well.

I also think at some point they'll give us some equivalent to a Sen cleanse in the future, only for use during downtime so we don't have to overwrite Sen on re-openers.