Hello everyone,

Just curious on what people feel about this Kaiten change? The problem i am coming across is that the change to the recast going down to 1 second, doesn't help anyone but hinder people, in the case of accidental button presses.

I have seen other posts before 5.08 about this and seen multiple people say bring it down to 1 second, but make it so you can't press it again if the Kaiten buff is up. But obviously that change didn't happen.

Instead a unmentioned nerf with Tsubame-gaeshi happened as well, which now is delayed by the recast time of weapon skills to activate it, on top of not being able to to use weapon skills during its recast timer after you use it... which means if you are literally standing there for 4 to 5 seconds doing nothing if you have no kenki.

Which comes back to the accidental casting of extra Kaitens.....

The flow... is really bad when getting to all iaijutsus now because of these nerfs, they don't feel rewarding at all because the flow just hurts... Honestly i would rather go back to 5.0 with Tsubame-gaeshi's cast time because the flow felt better and Kaiten fit in better with a 5 second Recast timer.


My suggestions would be:

- (this must happen) Remove the weapon skill timer from Tsubame-gaeshi completely so that you can Iaijutsu > Tsubame-gaeshi > Hakaze within a span of 2.5 seconds max based on the OGC to make the flow feel good.

A. Fix Kaiten by reverting it back to its 5 second recast timer.
B. Fix Kaiten by adding in a no recast if the buff is active.
C. Remove Kaiten from the game entirely. Increase Iaijutsu damage by 50%, make Iaijutsu cost 20 kenki to use. (Now hear me out on this.)

The reasoning for C is.. while Kaiten can be used for all "Weapon Skills" (not Tsubame-gaeshi as it is an ability not a weapon skill.) the problem is... you won't... there isn't enough gain in all the weapon skills to justify its cost EXCEPT for Iaijutsu... so basically the ability is tied directly to Iaijutsu, there is no reason or in another sense, no other purpose for this ability... it is basically a empty button press if you are not using it with Iaijutsu. So why not just combine Kaiten with Iaijutsu to make the flow better?

What do others think about this? My play style took a huge hit cause of the Kaiten and Tsubame-gaeshi nerfs and i really just wanted to throw this post out there to see what others have been experiencing.

Thank you for your time.