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.

Agree with you. They just stole joy of playing this game. First they crushed monk, now samurai. I don't know who to play anymore..