Quote Originally Posted by Xenon_S View Post
I have refused to play Samurai in PVE content since 6.1, I refuse to play something that is intentionally less interesting to play.
Instead I've taken back up NIN, my main since 3.0 to prog dragonsong ultimate.

IMO, NIN being able to hit 100k+ Direct Crit Hyoshos destroys any argument for SAM auto critting.

My DSR static had a SAM subbing in once, and he was just hating life in there.
P1 can't effectively double dot cuz adelphel jumps away (dots dont tick during jump aways)
P2 can't dot at all due to jump aways, sen alignment and kenki generation is also a mess
Meditate being effectively useless due to the movement requirements, I often see him run to a safe spot for 1 part of the mechanic, holds up sword to meditate, and immediately forced to move elsewhere, I doubt he even got any meaningful gain from it.

I felt so bad for him because he is a nin main but I don't have another non-sam/nin melee at bis to swap to.
Yeah, when I DCH Hyosho I get a nice little rush. Even if I don't, I can always say "still better than ogi namikiri lolol"

Anyway, that was my experience when I first played samurai in Dragonsong and the combination of it being nuked into braindead simple as well as the way the mechanics go, I wanted something that would be a bit more stimulating for me. Thus, ninja. Yay. Didn't even have a full BIS set and even then was contributing more with only a few days worth of practice.