Thread: Regarding the reaction to 6.1 SAM changes

Originally Posted by ShanaShirayuki

How incredibly condescending. I've been maining this class since Stormblood and you say all of our opinions and experience with the class are invalid? Get over yourself.

Also it seems you weren't here during the Hagakure debacle; there was similar backlash which prompted SE to re-add it back into the game. Then again based on your posts, ignorance on this matter seems to be your forte.

Facts! People that dont even play the class should just stfu since it has nothing to do with them and are obviously clueless in regards to how these changes negatively effect the synergy that sam has with other jobs, not to mention how less fun and hollow it feels.

Originally Posted by Ranh

Correct. The main criticism isn't even about damage but about the feel of the job after the changes.

Pretty much this. There are just several argue points I keep seeing
- Button/Action Bloat Excuse
- DPS Performance didn't change
- It's just one button
- Gatekeeping
6.1 SAM changes did not address anything.

Action/Bloat got debunked and multiple better solutions got proposed already. DPS performance did get hit and the feel of hitting big hits got reduced. Part of our identity to hit hard btw. 6.1 wasn't just one Button removal, Kaiten meant a whole damn lot to our gameplay. Gatekeeping... what even does this mean? the game is to hard? are you doing Savage/Ultimates? You don't need to know proper rotations of anything to do casual content. You're gatekeeping yourself.

No matter " What the reason " in someway shape or form, Samurai enjoyment got hit in 6.1. Yes Enjoyment. Numbers/Parsing/Rotation Execution/Aesthetics/Feel of AoE, it got negatively hit for fixing " Absolutely Nothing " and Addressing complaints no one made before the patch hit.