Quote Originally Posted by AnotherPerson View Post
It's reasonable to request it, and very reasonable to justify it, but it's unreasonable to think it's very easy to get back based on their history of changes. Just look at healer simplification over the years with DPS and tanks complaining healers don't heal enough even though healer actually do heal, to the point tanks/dps got even more self-sustain/party-sustain that can invalidate healers and healers hasn't gotten anything back in the DPS/support side in response to even lowered healing requirements. Perfectly unreasonable to think it's very easy to get back no matter how simple the request is. The whole reason why it got removed is because crit variance was too big on Samurai, even though they don't say it is (hence the huge rebalance on DPS towards all of Samurai's skills). If it's balanced but functional at the cost of "fun", then they won't change it because lackluster gameplay is subjective, even if the previous majority of players who main that role did enjoy that aspect that was removed. The job gameplay has to be completely broken for them to change anything (see: SCH actually cannot function without Energy Drain in ShB launch or it runs out of MP back then so it was given back) or the entire playerbase has to agree with it (and I mean near 0 dissenting voices and trolls).
Agree with everything except with what I bolded. Even that reason doesn't hold water. If they wanted to reduce it in this fashion, they literally could have done it by making Kaiten give Iaijutsu guaranteed crits along with the potency changes.