SAM tweaks "I" would like to see.

[Shurrikhan]

I'm not advocating that we tie Third Eye into Kaiten at all, but Third Eye just doesn't feel good to use.

I'd have to disagree. I don't think a single extra second of duration would kill what's satisfying to me about the skill, but it's relatively sharp timing and the versatile reward does, to me, make it feel quite good to use.

Latency can screw you out of actually parrying anything, and with Seigan gone it feels like we've been left with half a skill that's only there because "hey look, Sekiro parry button."

Having played around 180 ms for quite a while, it's always seemed that latency never shortened duration, only forced you to cast earlier. Your skill will start later, but also therefore last until later.

We could've kept Seigan as a transforming button like Ogi Namikiri/Kaeshi Namikiri is now.

Which would then mean you have no AoE spending option for Third Eye's reward unless Seigan were reworked to a cleave, which would still leave slightly less agency than just letting you spend its reward towards any Kenki skill of your chooosing (Kaiten, Shinten, Kyuten, Guren, or Senei).

[Ransu]

Tweak 1: Remove Kaiten
Once gotten we only ever use this move on Higinbana, Goken, Midare, and now Nomakiri. And with all the melee mastery traits this patch you've proven you can add traits that just boost damage of skill.s

Tweak 2: Combine Iaijutsu and Tsubame-gaeshi
Since using any other weaponskill removes Tsubame this would consolidate 2 buttons, 3 if you remove Kaiten, into 1. And SAM now has a lot of buttons.

Tweak 3: Combine Ikishoten and Ogi Namakiri
Again just more button consolidation. I don't know if there is a rotation where you hold Namakiri until you can Ikishoten a 2nd time to get 2 Namakiri but I feel this would really help us controller players.

Tweak 4: Remove Kenki cost of Gyoten and Yaten
I don't care if you have to lower the potency of them all the way to 1 or remove it entirely or remove the enhanced Enpi effect or all together. I just want to be able to move around without having to worry about weather I have Kenki or not.

Again these are just things I would want. Thanks for reading

Kaiten is fine the way it is. It gives meaningful management to the kenki bar, plus this games GCD is way too long and oGCD's make the long GCD bearable.

As for the rest....I guess? I dunno. I personally don't think SAM as "a lot of buttons" and I'm not a fan of merging a bunch of skills into single buttons. Pressing 1 button over and over again like in pvp isn't enjoyable.