Samurai changes are unacceptable in the current iteration

[Roxus]

I would prefer they bring back Kaiten, they could even reduce SAMs dmg further.

No seriously. The devs evidently didnt understand what Kaiten means for gameplay of Samurai. As of now, absolutely no Kenki managment is needed anymore: if you get Kenki, just empty your bar by spamming Shinten. There is no longer planing for your burst phase, no longer the good feeling you had when you managed to press the right buttons in a short period of time. A great part of challenge the job gave you is now gone and only boring spamming remains. Instead of pressing the right button at the right time you just press Shinten when you can, which barely reduces your APM overall. Also, what defined the SAM where the high dmg number from Midare/OgiNamikiri/Kaeshi which were only possible with Kaiten.

But as i said at the beginning, its not about the dmg. Kaiten was one, if not THE core abillity of the Samurai and by removing it, they actually managed to give the SAM player a worse gameplay experience. Even if the DMG numbers may go up in the future, the lack in gameplay will remain, until Kaiten is brought back.

I wouldn't want to compromise on this. The feeling of how the job plays out does matter. Or else we would all play the same job, or we might as well be playing a text based browser game without all these flashy animations and sounds.

The numbers is a hard concept to really convey. Strictly speaking on performance, perhaps say on something like a spreadsheet, yeah it's not that bad if you ignore the fact that you will never get the ceiling performance. But that alone is really downplaying how hard the changes have hit us. However, most people are willing to accept that loss. What people will not accept, however, are the numbers the finishers are doing, our hardest hits. It is just as visually important as the sounds and animations. Changing the redistribution so the satisfaction of how your best moves feel is very important to a lot of people.

That said, this is why most are asking to revert back to 6.08, and not simply add Kaiten back. You might feel like that is an okay compromise, but people will still be left unsatisfied.