Yeah it feels awful. I’ve run the raid a few times and the 90 dungeons a bunch, and it feels abysmal. I don’t expect it to perform much different in savage or ultimate.
The kaiten change was what worried me the most, and while it does suck losing it, that’s not even the worst part of the changes.
Midare, the quintessential samurai move, our big powerhouse move since the jobs release, now hits like a wet noodle. My gekko and kasha crits are as strong or sometimes even stronger than midare, and that should never be the case. Barely being able to break 20k on a midare crit is fucking embarrassing.
Tenka gokken feels worse because it doesn’t get the auto grit AND Kaitens gone. Kenki is useless now, we are back to shinten spam like in storm blood which if I remember correctly they specifically changed hagakure in shadowbringers because they didn’t want shinten spam and yet here we are. I’m honestly baffled by these changes, they made the job worse in every imaginable way for literally no reason. There were plenty of other ways to fix the “button bloat” that didn’t require removing a staple ability and gutting all the damage out of the only other staple ability.
They really had their heads up their asses on this one. I have to agree with the JP players on this one, whoever’s in charge of samurai changes needs to get on camera right now and explain the logic behind this shit.
I’m genuinely mad about this, I loved my samurai, and hated every second of playing the new content because of these insanely stupid changes.