Fun story. Samurai was so poor in stormblood (it’s release expansion) the no one brought one. It’s own personal dps did not outweigh the contribution of dragoons piercing/eye/litany and ninja being ninja. So SE buffed their love child to a degree that in SHB it was broken. Im sorry but both BLM and SAM were way too powerful in shadowbringers.

Now with all that lovely history said, here we are in current day and because it’s not samurai being too dog it’s someone else everyone is screeching about their version of balance. “Dps without buffs should do the most damage” or my favourite “why would you bring a samurai when it brings no buffs” well.. in shadowbringers it was quite the reverse. Not having a samurai was a dps loss due to how broken they was. Was this ok? Nope… no it wasn’t ok, it was dumb. And their synergy with dancer was a larger problem!

So I aim this at a few people screeching in this thread for 45 pages (specifically at you zira because you’re the most vocal person with your eyes painted on) it’s ok for samurai to not be too dps. The margin for error is within acceptable values. Get over it.