Quote Originally Posted by Ruminous View Post
What, giving me two slices of bread then promising me a full sandwich later isn't going to build anticipation when there's a sandwich shop next door? Say it ain't so!

It really has been one of my peeves ever since the announcement of 6.1's sam changes happened, was what it would get to make up for the loss in its style of play. Sure the damage is fine, but everything feels rather weightless. I will say that if they wanted to get people off samurai to try other roles, that part succeeded.

Ever since Misshapen Chair brought it up...The question of "who were these changes for?" has been on my mind and it's one I've been struggling to find an answer to. Maybe someday I'll figure it out, but even with the conga line of excuses we've got and the haphazard way the changes were implemented...I can see why they chose radio silence at this point. Sucks, but no one wants to go in front of the angry mob. Then again, would've been easier to not make the mob angry in the first place.
It is unfortunate and they knew that this was going to rile players. Obviously, from the way they acted during the announcements and readings leading up to 6.1 they knew. And maybe they are scared to address it because they know that the community can be quite rabid at times in an uproar.

But they literally told us to not knock it before we try it, and we have tried it. It has been almost a whole month now and sentiments did not change. So... why wouldn't they address it in some way shape or form after the fact? I really don't want to wait a whole patch cycle to use the job I chose to level with my limited time, or worse, until the next xpac. I leveled SAM because it was my main dps ever since I started playing back in 4.2

I may try to keep a good number of other jobs leveled, but I don't play as rapidly or as efficiently with the time I have because it's just not fun some times grinding. But I made the effort and they changed it and for what? It's hard to believe any excuse when each one given can be debunked with just a small bit of thought.

Hope they fix this soon,
-a dejected SAM player.