Quote Originally Posted by Nominous View Post
Not everyone viewed those interesting choices as fun choices, necessarily, or at least not me.
I don't know about other people, but we will have 17 battle classes in Shadowbringers, I think there's plenty of class and gameplay choices for everyone to pick something they have fun with.
I don't have fun with all the classes either, so I chose those I have fun with.

I fully agree that there are tweaks that could be made to smoothen out the gameplay, and while I can't speak for certain until I play the class at lvl 80, I must say that I'm torn about the removal of Hagakure.
There's no doubt the ease of play will be better, but taking away the little things that distinguish the class' depth might confine SAM to boredom levels.
As for shoha I think the analogy made with plenary indulgence was spot on, it's a situational-niche inside a niche pretty much. I suspect SAM will have to undergo readjustments in a few patches.

But again, very speculative claims atm, cannot speak for certain until the expansion hits.