Quote Originally Posted by SiriusBreeze View Post
Gonna continue shilling for consolidating the Shoha abilities into Shinten/Kyuten. Sword mediation stacks powerup Shinten into Shoha. It creates a feedback loop where we use Kenki to power-up Iaijutsus and Iaijutsus gives us sword meditation stacks to power-up our Kenki dump (Shinten into Shoha). Also works that Kyuten and Shoha 2 are circular AOEs.
I would love for Meditation to blend into the overall kit more. I've been parroting the idea of making Shinten/Kyuten transform based on status procs like Ikishoten turning them into Senei/Guren or Meditation turning them into Shoha 1 and 2. I also even considering making a button just for Meditation similar to the Iaijutsu with Sen.

Just... something along these kinds of consolidations is all I would want as a change to SAM since ShB. Damage has always been fine. It flowed nicely and felt flexible. But everything after the introduction in SB has felt tacked on. Tsubame-gaeshi is nice, but its really annoying when I finish an entire rotation and have 8 to 14 seconds left before its off cooldown. That was an issue I always had in ShB, so I'd wait doing nothing to make use of my second Midare.

Now it has 2 charges and I can just pool the second charge for emergencies or something along with Meikyo. Good QoL, but I'm probably playing wrong by not using both.

And then, Kaiten being taken away, it all just feels like there's a big long gap of nothing between my GCDs and iai, even if I use Shinten. It feels like a broken staccato now instead of a steady stream of melodies.