RDM the unwelcome DPS :(

[Drayos]

No it didn't. It actually got harder due to them having a 60sec burst window.
Downtime really throws things out of wack if you don't know what you're doing. Like in innocence and e3s.

Most people I talk to find SAM easier this expansion, but again, difficulty is subjective and some will find things easier then others.

I wouldn’t really put raid optimisation in SAM difficulty however, because I refer to that as a skill ceiling and not a difficulty to the job itself.

As if someone plays SAM through roulettes and DF raids weekly they won’t find that same difficulty.

[xxvaynxx]

Most people I talk to find SAM easier this expansion, but again, difficulty is subjective and some will find things easier then others.

I wouldn’t really put raid optimisation in SAM difficulty however, because I refer to that as a skill ceiling and not a difficulty to the job itself.

As if someone plays SAM through roulettes and DF raids weekly they won’t find that same difficulty.

Well I suppose if you play it in a dgn then yeah its easy. But that goes for like every job since you don't really have to pull much weight in a dgn or nm eden and you can just yolo your way through by pressing random buttons.

Samurai rotation is pretty easy yeah, so I guess you're right about it being more a optimization thing.
Though I disagree with you thinking skill ceiling doesn't make the job itself harder. Because by that same logic, nin is pretty easy then since you can play it fine if you don't care about optimizing your dps, just use everything on CD.
Only thing on nin is just watching your huton and ninki gauge.
Though I could just be overthinking it.

Maybe its just me but I don't see how anybody can think the newer samurai is easier.
Maybe to people that play it casually don't see a change *shrugs*
Some reason people thought hagakure made samurai hard so I'm pretty sure you have had people tell you its easier.