Quote Originally Posted by Kaedys View Post
Actually, that highlights that, unless they changed it since the media demo, the Yaten + Enpi combo actually got pretty considerably buffed. Most of our abilities had a reduction of ~20% potency (ex. Gekko 480 -> 370, Yakikaze 360 -> 280, Midare 800 -> 660), while the Enpi combo potency didn't change. It's still 100 + 300 + 100, costing 10 Kenki. That means it got, in effect, a ~25% buff relative to most of our other abilities.

Now, our "standard" 9-GCD cycle, generating all 3 Sen and using Midare, currently does a total of 3360 potency, plus generates 60 Kenki. Assuming 20 of that is used on Kaiten for Midare, that's 3760 potency and +40 Kenki net. Kenki's "spammable" spender is Shinten, currently at 320 potency for 25 Kenki, or 12.8 potency per Kenki, which means 40 Kenki is equivalent to 512 potency. That's a net of 4272 potency, or 474.7 potency per GCD. The Enpi combo currently does 500 potency and costs 10 Kenki (though it could instead do 400 and cost no Kenki if you skip Gyoten and just run back in, resulting in slightly better efficiency). The 10 Kenki cost is equivalent to 128 potency lost from not being able to use it on Shinten, so the net for that GCD is 372, or 400 flat if you skip Gyoten and simply run back in during the Enpi GCD. In either case, a net loss.

However, with the reduced potency, we do only 2960 potency with our Sen combo, including Kaiten on Midare. Shinten is down to 270 potency, meaning each Kenki is worth 10.8 potency, so the 40 Kenki surplus is now only worth 432 potency. Total is 3392, or 376.9 potency per GCD (reminder that potencies are going down, but not really actual damage, because of the change to the damage formula in EW). That means that the Enpi combo with Gyoten is only barely a DPS loss, and without it is actually a DPS gain (~23 potency per GCD).

And that's a bit problematic. Because it means that optimal DPS for Samurai, outside of the raid buff window, is actually probably going to be spamming the Enpi combo (and running back in after each, so it's null cost on Kenki). I really hope they notice that and drop the potency of the Enpi combo to compensate.
Yeah, I read that as well. If that is the case, I assume that they will hit Enpi with a nerf. I'd like to see it get hit so hard that it is taken out of the rotation as a filler entirely. Not a fan of using my movement utility for anything but movement. Sam is lucky on that front, since it's tied to our gauge and is weak enough compared to the others that it doesn't get used for anything but movement.