Quote Originally Posted by Akantorz View Post
So changing the Kenki gauge to a "PRESS THE GLOWY BUTTON FOR DAMAGE!" is better than managing your Kenki to get the damage buff and getting a SWEET animation to boot? Please stop speaking for Samurais like you know how to play one. Managing Kenki is pointless now, you just slap the glowy button until you have no more kenki, not fun really.
Shinten isn't fun either it's just another extra damage button.. but combat on the whole isn't much fun which I referenced in my earlier post. Every encounter you follow the same old dull boring static rotation from muscle memory and basically requires single digit brain cells to pull off.

The amount of thought required is negligble. Patch 6.4 lands months from now and everyone knows what rotation they'll use because it's the exact same one they use now... BORING.

The point I was aiming to make is the combat system could be a shed load more engaging even if it only had 6 buttons or so that the op mentioned as long as those buttons carried weight and impacted the fighting some fashion... where XIV has a shed load of buttons and most of them just do a bit of extra damage... Shinten exists only to keep players artificially engaged in that 2 seconds between gcds because players would get so bored if they had nothing to press...