Quote Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim View Post
This may be my personal opinion, but I never saw Kaiten as an iconic ability. It simply was a Samurai's Dark Arts / Life Surge / Reassemble (5.0+) that gave you an obligatory button press before Iaijutsu. Arguably the Iaijutsu as a whole is iconic to XIV Samurai and managing the Sens was interesting (at least when Hagakure for Sen->Kenki exchange was viable).

Regarding forced criticals / forced direct hits - I totally see your point, but for the same reasons Inner Release guaranteed Crit-DH on Fell Cleaves SAM now has their strongest hits be forced Crit-DH; it was to remedy huge damage fluctuation whether you hit your Midare / Tsubame. I for one am looking forward to how well the Crit + DH overcap adjustments will affect SAM.


This is hyperbole and you know it. "Bleeding DPS" as if DPS aren't a massive surplus. Please.
Yes, it is hyperbole. If an average person looking to get into the game came to the official forums looking for advice, they'd probably think they game was dead and the plug was being pulled tomorrow.

There's flaws with the game, of course. All games have flaws. But the sheer amount of cynicism and entitlement on these forums is as bad as the "there is nothing wrong with the game!" fanboys.