Alright, here's my feedback. The SAM changes feel unnecessary and done for nothing more than further simplification. Tenka didn't need to be a circular AoE. Aside from the fact that the range feels tiny, the potency is crap, and the positioning throws you into the middle of damage, the animation just doesn't work. It doesn't, it makes no sense. Why are there slices coming out of my butt from frontal swipe? It's not even as satisfying to do. The loss of kaiten turns the meter into mindless shinten dump and hurts our parry even more. I know we no longer have a counter, but now we don't even get free charge for kaiten. Anyhow, you guys have explained the technicalities better than I ever could so let me move to the feel and flow of the job.

It might sound ridiculous, but I mean this from the bottom of my heart: THE FLOW SUCKS.

The feeling of buildup is gone, the anticipation for the FAT NUT giga damage one would slam out feels so flat now. Numbers aside, the crescendo of pressure and readiness when coming to the end of the combo, spinning your sword, and readying Setsugekka is dead. Now it's a crit every time too? A pitiful crit, at that. Not even the satisfaction from critical hit remains. Why even have a cast bar at this point? The damage doesn't seem that much crazier than other skills.

I wasn't sure how I felt about SAM in 6.0, to this day I miss things like our execution and counter, but I can tell you I was having fun. It worked well, the Namikiris felt like having a shotgun. Juicy, satisfying, ah. Just go back, please. Reverting can't be that hard, just copy paste data.

Quote Originally Posted by Renascent View Post
All valid point, to be honest i'm sure kaiten was annoying to figure out for balancing especially with the auto crit change, but it felt like the lazy way out and just ruin the job for us so @#%& that.
While I'm at it, this has been the sentiment I've gotten for a while now. Jobs with pets? Lol take them out! Pets are hard to balance! Crits might inconvenience design somehow? Let's not figure it out, just simplify! Simplify always, never more depth, never more complexity, never more richness. It's a real shame. When Yoshi-P said the battle designers wanted no more pet jobs, I cringed. And now look at SMN. Look at MCH, their turret/robot's a joke, and of course, all the potential DRK had with their clone is completely wasted. It's a visible DoT.