Quote Originally Posted by Colt47 View Post
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I meant meditation as a whole should be improved and expanded. Not just the channel button we're meant to use in downtime. I mean the entire thing, from the stacks to the shoha and shoha 2, those could be expanded and improved and just overall cleaned up more.

While yes, I can see the idea that more attacks from capstones can become bloat, and they kind of have with it. The main 'bloat' issue is that half the things that have been added on SAM are redundant and meant specifically for situational st or aoe. While not bad in its own right, the fact that they're redundant means that they can be trimmed to still serve the same purpose if they went about the structure a little differently.

You bring up WAR a few times so let's roll with that. Senei and Guren are typically only used right after Ikishoten to keep their cooldowns aligned. They're basically just more powerful nuke versions of your filler kenki spender, so why not do what WAR did with Infuriate changing fell cleave and decimate into Inner Chaos and chaotic cyclone and have Shinten and Kyuten evolve into those While under the effect of Ikishoten? That both cleans up space on the bar and makes for less drift mistakes if they really want to baby proof the game so much.

A similar argument could be made to have Meditation stacks affect our kenki spenders to evolve those as well if not give it its own dedicated button to use. People tell me that Shinten/Kyuten wouldn't translate well into Senei/Guren because guren is a line while kyuten is a circle. Well shoha 2 is a circle, there's an idea right there. Again, cleans up space on the bar and maintains all current actions while reducing drift mistakes.

There's so many ideas they could have gone but seemingly kaiten was the problem? If they really think that then they should look again and really dive into what the job can do.