Part 2

4. AoEs. Circle AoEs are great. But I feel like you made the wrong attack a circle AoE. Personally I would have rather this stayed a cone and Fuga by default made a circle. My reasoning is simple. Unlike Fuga, Oka, Mangetsu, or any other centered on self circular AoE in the game, Tenka Gokken has A CAST TIME. This means in order to maximize your damage for this you have to put yourself in the center of a mob (where it's dangerous) instead of aligning yourself on the outside (where it's safer). I'm expecting there to be plenty of interrupted Tenka Gokkens just to avoid getting hit with an orange AoE marker.

5. Action bloat. Just to bring it up again in comments that many others have made. Iki into Ogi. Senei + Guren. Shoha + Shoha II. These are simple changes and far more obvious than removing Kaiten.

I'm not active in forums or threads at all but the SAM changes feel so bad that I wanted to make sure I added my voice to the conversation. I am seriously torn between keep playing SAM since I love it so much to boycotting it and quitting it completely because of how unsatisfying and wrong it feels to play now. I'm probably going to still play it because I'm too stubborn but the fact that I am even thinking of giving it up should be indicative of how affecting these changes are.