Bring Back Kaiten

[Reginald_Cain]

I still think the nerf to hagakure was a far more signifigant removal from samurai's kit because you had to think about whether to spend sen on iajutsu or kenki. Not to mention Midare Setsugekka getting it's base potency nerfed in exchange for auto non direct crits. This felt like they made an iconic button purposefully limp to try and make tendo setsugekka look cooler.

[Carighan]

Plus it naturally takes away a teensy tiny bit from the castbar aspect of the class, which is after all its whole spiel.

It's the thing SQEX seems to be terminally afraid of: Unique identity. They allow like a 10th or so of your rotation to be stuff other classes don't have, but even then it is functionally the same thing anyways, it just wears a different skin. Actual differences like the extra ranged moves on Reaper and Viper or the extra castbars on Samurai (and to a minor degree Reaper) have to quickly become either mudflated or marginalized, to ensure that no matter what there can never, not once, be a break in the Optimal Static Rotation(tm).

New Evolved Dragoon looks like they could finally be experimenting with unique elements (Sky Jump and 3-position moves), but a lot depends on whether the other classes don't also all come with 3-position direcitonals and some quasi-invulnerability move. If they don't, and in return say, Samurai is actually hindered by its castbars in return for actually reaping superior damage from its immobility, then we could be getting somewhere.