Level by level, I explain how the tools of the Samurai works, including openers and rotations as needed, not to mention considerations regarding the max level looping rotation and how it plays into the 2 minute burst windows!
If you are a completely new Samurai player, then my starter guide on the subject will probably be more helpful for you:
https://youtu.be/4uXbzcvIMGo
If you found the concepts GCD and oGCD a bit difficult to follow, I have a short going through the basics quickly:
https://youtube.com/shorts/WDtPflAdQto
I also have a longer video going a bit more in-depth, however, it is a bit older, yet still entirely relevant:
https://youtu.be/4jZ9j7ti0Nw
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Music Used:
FFXIV Endwalker – Cradle of Hope
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:51 51-60 Introducing Kenki
04:11 Level 60 Summary
04:33 61-70 More Kenki and AoE Spenders
06:49 Level 70 Summary
07:22 71-80 Double Iaijutsus and Senei
11:06 Level 80 Summary
11:45 81-90 Charges and Ogi Namikiri
14:11 Final Summary
15:07 Optimized Opener
15:55 Downtime, Bursts and Fillers
17:03 General Rotation Tips
17:44 2 and 3+ Target Rotations
18:24 Skillspeed Breakpoints
19:10 Stat Priorities
19:48 Fun Fact
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Amazing guide
The fact that you have 30 seconds to use oga namakiri is a godsend. So often in DF you'll have people letting their buffs drift (the worst offender seems to be ninjas/mug) and being able to use ikishoten on cooldown and still get ON within buffs… well, it'd feel bad if you couldn't.
if for instance you have to be behind a rock to survive a party wipe insta kill is it better to spam the ranged or build your kenki(meditate)
Thank you, I have been painfully levelling my Samurai over the past year and a couple watch throughs of this today at a practice dummy has completely changed my opinion on it, I always felt I played clunky and not understanding the nuiances of keeping the little personal buffs up using CD's OGCD's where etc the video was MASSIVE for me so thank you :)!
what’s with the creepy voice?
Wait, so what was the 50-60 opener and rotation?
Can someone ELI5 filler GCDs for me? This is literally the only concept that confuses me when reading and watching SAM guides.
New to samurai, i dont quite understand the filler phase, why do we use half our sen builders then use Hagakure?
Thanks for the guide. I'm switching back to Samurai next raid tier and this helps me with how looping works.