Quote Originally Posted by Sylvain View Post
Many new player playing SAM didn't understand the use of Hagakure because in their eyes, Shinten < Midare.
In other words, they don't see how strong the fact that it was an ogcd is. This lead to many SAM under performing (yes, I agree, they could read a guide).
From my experience with virtually everyone who attempted SAM casually (like, not as a main job), nearly everyone didn't get the point of that CD and were always "but isn't it better to do Midare?"
I'm not a new player playing SAM, but I am a new SAM. I literally got my SAM to 70 about a week before early access and got to play around with Hagakure before the change. I can't speak for all new SAMs, but I can say Shinten is godsend since SAM doesn't have a whole lot of offensive ogcds to weave between weaponskills. I don't run parsers or anything like that, but I could just feel my DPS suffering if I held onto Kenki for the sake of boosting Madare. So hopefully that let's you know that not all new SAMs see Madare as the end all be all of SAM. Especially after acquiring skills like Guren.

What I didn't like about Hagakure was that it ate whatever amount of Sen you had built up, where I would have preferred that the ability was proc based and available so long as you had a Sen to eat, and would only consume one. That was the update I was hoping for before all the information was released, and was perfectly fine if the amount of Kenki generated was reduced as a result of this change. Instead we get free 50 Kenki every 60 seconds. It's less than flattering and I feel it was a lazy change, but the gripes end there. What ultimately matters is I have plenty of opportunity to weave in Shinten between skills.