Samurai changes are unacceptable in the current iteration

[YukiB]

I swapped to Dragoon to finally start leveling it. I noticed that Blood of the Dragon was taken away at some point. I remember it was an ability that gave a potency increase on jump and spineshatter dive by 30%. I must have missed when they removed it but it feels very much like a change in-line with Samurai. Taking control of potency increases out of the players hands. It very much put me off from wanting to play that class as well... :/

It's not really the same. Kaiten was an ability that had a resource cost and was manually used before big attacks. Blood of the Dragon was a skill with no cost and, at high levels, a cooldown shorter than its duration that was extended during the melee combo so it was effectively a passive. There was no control involved, because you used it once at the start of the fight and that's it. More like NIN's Huton.

Still sucks to lose it, honestly, because it didn't require any effort to keep up and it looked cool. I wouldn't want NIN to lose Huton for the same reason.

[Karious]

It's not really the same. Kaiten was an ability that had a resource cost and was manually used before big attacks. Blood of the Dragon was a skill with no cost and, at high levels, a cooldown shorter than its duration that was extended during the melee combo so it was effectively a passive. There was no control involved, because you used it once at the start of the fight and that's it. More like NIN's Huton.

Still sucks to lose it, honestly, because it didn't require any effort to keep up and it looked cool. I wouldn't want NIN to lose Huton for the same reason.

Well, yes, Kaiten is a much more involved skill. As a previous Samurai as my main DPS I don't know the exact particulars of other classes skills. Just feels like dumbing down in general. As you said, comparable to Huton. I'm not super knowledgable in all the classes but it definitely feels like dumbing down and homogenization across the board.