Quote Originally Posted by Renalt View Post
Hey Cel I think you're a pretty cool person. I wouldn't really concern yourself with what others think though. Even my opinion is really just that.

You're jokes are just a fun little quirk you have and I think you should stick with it and fight the good fight!

If not for me, if not for yourself, do it for Kaiten.


Kind words Renalt, thank you

In Raid groups like last night attempting to help them, I still crack Kaiten-meme's to cut the serious tension. I know some can have raiding anxiety, and a light-hearted joke with encouraging words can go along way. Specially when a Tank by accident let me tank a tankbuster and I'll just throw out my macro
- Hey look I am tanking :3 ... Oh crap D: !! I'm Tanking DX !! -

Samurai's already lost a lot. Recently a total of up to 7 simplifications. While some warranted QOL or necessary to adapt to the changing environment, it made the gameplay without question easier. For many? Hissatsu: Kaiten removal went to far. Yet if you search back enough? Other Jobs lost and waited way more then us to regain nothing. I don't play other Jobs, but it's not uncommon to see lost skills being mentioned i.e Aero III / Dark Arts and SMN... everything. Even for BRD I had to recently request a history lesson in the DPS subsection. Got a kind informative response from BRD changes all the way back to Heavensward. Players are not even requesting un-playable difficulty for their Jobs, rather to preserve or improve their Job's gameplay with depth, substance, flavor, skill-expression that can be entirely optional to master or what was lost replaced with something. Our Samurai outrage turned into Action...
  • We were told to go to the Forums, so we did
  • A total of 160+ Threads now written
  • The JP forums made a Mega thread
  • Content creators created 12 videos for it
Square gave Radio silence... Other roles mocked us telling us this is your 1st rodeo of being ignored by Square? when we didn't mock no one for giving their feedback. If constructive analysis doesn't work, we started meme-ing it. Then the unexpected Cosplayer with the " Bring back Kaiten " sign, thought it was great! felt like sharing it here instead of the DPS forum and you start to see the lengths we go to preserving our gameplay or wanting it improved out of " passion ".

And Instead? many demand us to be silent like the grave as if the past haven't taught us anything that staying silent doesn't improve our gameplay... As time passes, less start to care to the point of forgetting to care... only until the next hollowing change happening or culling of another Skill or Job feature. Hence I often say that I prefer to draw the line at " somewhere " vs " nowhere ". I disliked many simplifying changes, but for me and many? " Hissatsu: Kaiten removal " was just one change to far, mhm