Do NOT bring Kaiten back

[Menmaro]

Person who barely plays Samurai has an uneducated opinion about Samurai, why am I not surprised lmao

[Karious]

Why do people keep bumping the obvious troll thread? SE is gonna see this thread title and think everything is peachy. :|

[Nizzi]

Why do people keep bumping the obvious troll thread? SE is gonna see this thread title and think everything is peachy. :|

Optimistic of you to think they actually read these forums.

[Martynek]

You could play Samurai without Kaiten. It feels awful, but it works.
In the same vein, you could play as a Marauder, Conjurer, or Pugilist. It feels awful, but it works. You'll clear the content, so who cares, am I right?

[TofuPenguin]

You could play Samurai without Kaiten. It feels awful, but it works.
In the same vein, you could play as a Marauder, Conjurer, or Pugilist. It feels awful, but it works. You'll clear the content, so who cares, am I right?

It DOES feel awful. And this is coming from a trash SAM. I feel like if I'm not doing shinten spam, im just standing there waiting for GCDs most of the time (and shinten spam looks stupid.) I feel like I'm not playing a lvl 90 job but a lvl 60 or 70 job at this point. The main reason why I picked up SAM was for the Kaiten animation. I thought it was one of the coolest animations in the game. Now, I'm in search of a replacement job. I've been trying monk just because it shared gear with SAM (and I didn't have to regear) but after spending the past 1-2 weeks with it and getting used to the rotation, I feel like I'm on the search again as I'm not completely satisfied.

Seriously hoping they revert the changes. Right now I feel like SAM is walking the path of SMN. Which is not good.

[Selvokaz]

I feel like Kaiten could have worked (as in stayed in) if they had made it one of those chain skills that becomes the next follow up skill, like midare setsugekka. Like... how Dragoon has that Dragon Eye ability. So you get the three seals, then Kaiten appears on the midare setsugekka button, so its like in two in one button that you double tap. XD

[Ransu]

I feel like Kaiten could have worked (as in stayed in) if they had made it one of those chain skills that becomes the next follow up skill, like midare setsugekka. Like... how Dragoon has that Dragon Eye ability. So you get the three seals, then Kaiten appears on the midare setsugekka button, so its like in two in one button that you double tap. XD

That would be a lot more punishing. On its own button you can mess up and not have enough kenki for kaiten and just skip it. Not ideal, but the option is there. If kaiten is tied into the iajutsu button you'd be forced to use another global to build kenki. Combining ogi into ikishoten would make much more sense if action blow was really the problem, which it wasn't. We all know by now the change was done entirely because of the ultimate fight.

[Selvokaz]

That would be a lot more punishing. On its own button you can mess up and not have enough kenki for kaiten and just skip it. Not ideal, but the option is there. If kaiten is tied into the iajutsu button you'd be forced to use another global to build kenki. Combining ogi into ikishoten would make much more sense if action blow was really the problem, which it wasn't. We all know by now the change was done entirely because of the ultimate fight.

no kenkei gauge for this kaiten, its like dragoons dragon eye thing, once you hsve the seals, you use the kaiten before midare period by hitting whatever your midare button is.

[Shurrikhan]

no kenkei gauge for this kaiten, its like dragoons dragon eye thing, once you hsve the seals, you use the kaiten before midare period by hitting whatever your midare button is.

But... why?

For one, that can end up a clipping nightmare given how XIV has tended to do combined buttons.

More importantly, though, Kaiten having a Kenki cost is largely the point of Kaiten -- to create a need for gauge management so that Kenki is an actual gauge instead of just a Shinten charge counter.

[Ransu]

no kenkei gauge for this kaiten, its like dragoons dragon eye thing, once you hsve the seals, you use the kaiten before midare period by hitting whatever your midare button is.

That's....even worse. Why would anyone want that? Part of the reason everyone hates this change is the simplification of kenki. Kaiten animation is great and flows great into the iajutsus, but the other thing is it gave us something else to manage. We'd still run into the same problem of just spamming shinten.