G-give it Back T---T; !!

[Deo14]

I still don't understand how they ended up adding Shoha 2 without first changing how Shoha worked since they wanted to reduce button bloat, a simple solution would have been to have Shoha replace Hakaze and Shoha 2 replace Fuga when you got your 3 stacks (just add Hakaze's potency to Shoha and Fuga's to Shoha 2 to prevent any dps loss) but no, let's get rid of that one skill a lot of people enjoy using and save one key instead of 2.

It's just mind blowing, as if they used a dice 20 on a 5 difficulty roll and get a 1 (too much Baldur's gate 3 lately).

I agree with sentiment, but that suggestion is terrible, you're supposed to pool meditation stacks, just like any resource. There's period of like 15 seconds before burst where you hold all 3 stacks all the way until the start of burst. Solution for button bloat (btw, they never said anything about button bloat to my knowledge, that's community made) would be merging Iki+Ogi, Kyuten+Shinten, Senei+Guren, Shoha 1+2, and voila, 4 less buttons, even with Kaiten, SAM would have like 2 buttons less than average job.

Only bloat-related reasoning which devs talked about is action bloat. But that makes no sense, APM in burst is identical (at maximum, you do 1/2 less action in burst if you pool Kenki properly), and you even use same amount of distinct buttons, because now you need to use gap closer to spend the last 10 Kenki: