Thread: Regarding the reaction to 6.1 SAM changes

Originally Posted by cjbeagle

This ^

Prior to 6.1 I mained samurai for 2 simple reasons:
- OGCD variety/frequency.
- Minimal emphasis on tracking cooldowns.

I don't care at all about the meta - what's important to me is that the gameplay be fast, fun, and not demand that I track cooldowns like a hawk - my attention should be on the fight, not my hotbars.

Dragoon is cooldown intensive.
Reaper isn't fast (Enshroud doesn't count).
Monk isn't fast (Greased Lightning doesn't make up for effectively 0 OGCDs).
Ninja is cooldown intensive.
Samurai is no longer fun.

I could switch to ranged physical or a caster, but the list would look similar - the only job that is anywhere close to samurai in terms of fast, fun, and not being cooldown intensive is dancer, which I do enjoy, just not nearly as much as I used to enjoy samurai.

SE trying real hard to get me to unsub. If they dont address these changes fast ill prob go back to only subbing during a big expansion.

Originally Posted by WorldPeacElbow

SE trying real hard to get me to unsub. If they dont address these changes fast ill prob go back to only subbing during a big expansion.

Them gutting samurai severely undermined my will to engage in PVE content at all - the only thing that's really holding my interest this point is Crystalline Conflict, and ironically, so far my favorite job for that content has been monk, which happens to have an OGCD that buffs the next weaponskill by 50%.