Thread: Compiled SAM threads against 6.1 changes / Kaiten removal

Originally Posted by Khalitas

Please add Kaiten back. It's an amazing animation and really added flair to the job.

Kaiten added flair because it made you able utilize Kenki to Boost your Weaponskills, it's funny to think "uhh just 20 Kenki~" but it was the point, Kaiten wasn't a free cool down (like Life Surge or Fight of Flight), it interacted with the Kenki Gauge!

Kaiten wasn't just a fancy Animation or a useful Skill, it's also the Reason why Kenki Management exists in the first place.

Originally Posted by RyuuZero

Kaiten added flair because it made you able utilize Kenki to Boost your Weaponskills, it's funny to think "uhh just 20 Kenki~" but it was the point, Kaiten wasn't a free cool down (like Life Surge or Fight of Flight), it interacted with the Kenki Gauge!

Kaiten wasn't just a fancy Animation or a useful Skill, it's also the Reason why Kenki Management exists in the first place.

And it properly filled the gap between the last gcd and the iaijutsu cast, taking away that awkward moment of nothing in the rotation that existed at level 50. Now that same awkward stutter is back for the whole leveling experience.

Originally Posted by Deveryn

Maybe if it was all in one place instead of spread into so many different threads, they might get a better idea of how important it is. There's so much spam about this. No one's going to sit and make a list of all the Kaiten threads and mentions in other threads.

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" you mean this? "

I just want the move back man, it was one of my top favorite moves for SAM purely for the animation alone. I would literally sit there and watch the animation play out before hitting the next button just so I could enjoy it. Always made me feel badass when I did it, I know what it did and what it’s purpose was but I really loved it just for the animation. Just make Shoha 1 turn into Shoha 2 or another move do the same thing to help with bloat. And honestly I play on ps5 and didn’t have any issues with button bloat at all. Just bring back Kaiten bro, Yoshi pls man!

Bumping the thread to remind SE that we still want Kaiten back.

Kaiten is too restrictive to design around. So in preparation of patch 7.0, we've decided to remove Kaiten in 6.1 in order for us to introduce a new ability 16 months later. Please look forward to it

Y'know, it really opened my eyes to just how fragile the developers' job design has become overall. They keep removing blocks from the job Jenga tower until the thing just collapses, but instead of doing anything else, they just wash their hands of it and move on to something else while ignoring the people they've left with the mess. Used to think, "well surely it'll get better" or "well it could be worse", but that was just deluding myself. "Worse" was making its slow insidious march the entire time.

I hop on SAM, do a Midare, think "this felt better with Kaiten" and then switch to another job