Thread: Odds of reverting Sam in 6.11

I know I'm probably on copium but what are the odds that SE realize their mistake and revert Sam to its former glory in the patch today? :')

Originally Posted by WorldPeacElbow

I know I'm probably on copium but what are the odds that SE realize their mistake and revert Sam to its former glory in the patch today? :')

I don't know, but I'm betting they do because the idea of them not doing so is too depressing to consider. I'd rather be hopeful and proven wrong than actually accept that they've gutted samurai and won't be fixing it anytime soon.

Originally Posted by Maxilor

They gave back Energy Drain to SCH.

Keep the faith.

[To Kaiten]

Stay strong, Keep the faith.

At 6.1's end, we'll meet again. We will. We will...

The Ultimate has released, and we are granted with another beautiful fight. But you are not here to see it.

Originally Posted by WorldPeacElbow

I know I'm probably on copium but what are the odds that SE realize their mistake and revert Sam to its former glory in the patch today? :')

With the release of ultimate, it is unlikely a total reversion is going to happen as they no doubt had the current SAM in mind for its release. A total reversion would also impact teams' planned comps for said ultimate in the early weeks. Although I personally feel it would not make a significant difference and that the early teams going hard would be able to adapt just fine to whatever changes are made, it's likely they will just play it safe. Soonest I think we will see major changes in my opinion will be 6.15 or 6.18. Although I would be happy to be proven wrong of course. Till then just have to keep letting our voices be heard!

Originally Posted by NohimeOda

With the release of ultimate, it is unlikely a total reversion is going to happen as they no doubt had the current SAM in mind for its release. A total reversion would also impact teams' planned comps for said ultimate in the early weeks. Although I personally feel it would not make a significant difference and that the early teams going hard would be able to adapt just fine to whatever changes are made, it's likely they will just play it safe. Soonest I think we will see major changes in my opinion will be 6.15 or 6.18. Although I would be happy to be proven wrong of course. Till then just have to keep letting our voices be heard!

I feel like in terms of impacting teams' planned compositions a reversion is only a gain, there are several threads in the past week or so of SAM players noting they will change jobs or the griping about gearing up on alt job on short notice for the ultimate, things like that. I agree that they are unlikely to revert since the ultimate was probably designed with the current iteration of SAM in mind ahead of time though.

I don't think we'll see anything until 6.2 if we see anything at all. I have very little faith in SE's feedback system these days, but I would certainly love to be surprised.

Originally Posted by NohimeOda

A total reversion would also impact teams' planned comps for said ultimate in the early weeks.

6.1 changes that came out of nowhere is what impacted team's planned comps.
Most early week ultimate statics have been in the making for more than a couple weeks.

Yeah, the argument that they cant make a big change this close to ultimate release is thrown out since... 6.1 happened and did exactly that. If anything, undoing 6.1 would allow comps that were thrown into disarray to come back together, since Sams couldnt all switch off and gear up an alt in time. Many were going to play Sam anyways even though they dont enjoy it anymore, so if anything, a reversion would increase player happiness and help comps planned more than 2 weeks ago to do ultimate content.

The only thing I would be against regarding 6.11 Sam changes would be a re-envisioning of the class. I.E. another change to try to address variance that creates a novel playstyle or something. A reversion, partial or complete, is the way to go. Even just shifting potency away from the core rotation and back into finishers would be a good first step if they dont want to make huge changes.

Simply put, no. They wont fix it in 6.11. They need to, they should, but they wont.