Thread: What I'd have preferred for 5.1 Samurai

Reserved for notes and responses.

Why the Nerfs?

Read the "Balancing/Sums" section.

Merciful Eyes and TE-Seigan Consolidation

I chose not to consolidate ME with TE and Seigan with Shinten because leaving Shinten and Seigan separate allows one to bank Seigan for later use to perfectly max gauge before raid buffs. They have distinct Kenki costs, after all, and I prefer it that way. I like the 10/15/20/25/50 cost range.

Moreover, I saw no reason to make ME an active skill. It is only ever useful when it prevents death, but that can be handled passively with just as much interaction as it has now. In all other cases, it merely overheals you in light of AoE healing. By simply using it as passive last-ditch healing that can be granted at end of effect if it doesn't prevent death in the meantime it maintains the exact same use without cluttering the bar.

Finally, I buffed ME from 200 to 400 because a mere 200 potency is outright insignificant, hard even to notice in its effect on one's health bar. If I could fix Second Wind as well (say, to 1200 potency instead of the mere 6% or so of HP it currently grants at level 80), I'd likely buff ME further to 600 potency.

Guren-Senei Consolidation

Yes, this would inadvertantly make it so you could never mistakenly hit Guren in single-target. I honestly believe these single-alternatives to be merely bloat, as there is not a single ST situation in which we'd use the AoE variant, nor a single AoE situation (even with only 2 targets) in which we'd use the single-target version, and so I am okay with that.

You can still reposition around the target to get other enemies out of your line of attack in order to use Senei specifically, just as you would have done when you only had Guren in order to avoid, say, hitting CCed, damage-reflecting, or explode-on-death mobs.