Quote Originally Posted by Roxus View Post
Hey folks. There's been a lot of talks regarding, you guessed it, the removal of Kaiten and the flattened damage curve. Speculations of the complete removal of the Kenki system are showing up more often. People are baffled this was put in instead of the much asked for return of Starry Eyes / Seigan, which was requested back in early access. You'd just have Third Eye change to one of them.

One other point, "numbers", if you get what I'm saying. People have noticed Samurai are pretty scarce there.

There is a lot of waiting and anxiety happening. We're all still waiting for a reply after the development team asked us to tell them if they went too far or not. That was repeated several times, so I guess we need to repeat it several times too. Adjusting jobs so both short and long term enjoyment is preserved? If this is the case, they have failed far more times than I care to count. I think many have been patient enough here, more than just Samurai obviously, don't derail the thread towards that please. Supposedly they have read the comments on homogenization, they just ignore it because "they want to push for it as much as they can". Their idea of giving us new is taking away the old.

I asked my WoW friend who doesn't play FF14 what exactly happened in WoW so he has no strings attached to this game. He described exactly what is happening to FF14's job balance right now. If you stay quiet even a little bit, they'll take it as acceptance, some believe. So let's continue making some noise. "I know I won't get away by avoiding this matter."
I miss Seigan. I miss Kaiten. I miss old Dark Arts, but everyone I spoke to loved that it was changed.

I will stand by my suggestions as things I personally want and would love to see returned or done to the job of SAM.

Our GCDs feel empty. Our Iaijutsu feel hollow. Why were the potencies spread to the GCDs to the point where it doesn't even feel like the thing we're supposed to be building towards has no impact? Make the iaijutsu strong again. Fix Tenka Goken. It should not be a circle. Casts should NOT be used in the center of dungeon mobs.

Try implementing similar button transformations as WAR has. Ikishoten is just the SAM equivalent to Infuriate. 50 gauge and grants access to a super strong move. Make Ogi Namikiri become one of our existing buttons (like Ikishoten). Make Senei and Guren a transformation on the Shinten and Kyuten buttons (from Ikishoten)

Make Third Eye become Merciful Eyes. Make Shinten turn into Seigan from proper Third Eye use.

Give us up to 5 meditation stacks so Shoha and Shoha 2 can be on a single button based on the number of meditation stacks we have.

Bring back Kaiten and make the crit come from that. But I'd prefer if they kept our big hits actually big. That was the whole point of the job and building up resource like that. By flattening the damage we've just turned into worse MNK it seems.