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Good video. I love DT Samurai. I just miss Kaiten…
SAM is still sick, and the level 99 job gear is so tasty.
SAM main here, I agree on every point, except I didn't mind how tsubame worked before, it was fine and is fine now. Like you said, part of what makes SAM different from Viper is that it is more challenging, and at this point we might as well get rid of tsubame as a button entirely and just add it iaijutsu. That would save a button, and require even fewer changes than getting rid of guren, which I am not sure about. A line AOE makes packs more interesting, after all. Otherwise I just stand with the tank in the middle the whole time.
I main warrior on the character I have with samurai but it's definitely a powerful DPS job
I'd come back to it with all these great changes but i'm having more fun with Viper at the moment with its sick ass animations and faster playstyle. And I prefer the job gear of Viper more too lol.
Unfortunately, I don't have a long history of playing as a Samurai, but maybe I can share some opinions as a newer player who started during EW.
Samurai was always my favorite class when I was leveling and trying out some difficult content during EW. Raids, trials, some extreme trials—I always tried playing as a Samurai and felt my rotation was like a fun dance (which is ironic because I made a Vergil cosplay as glamour for this class).
When I played the class during the 7.0 and 7.01 patches, I really felt like something was lost in those patches. Some dynamic, some… something was off all the time. It was like the class didn't have all the power it had in EW, not just in terms of damage, but it felt heavy when playing it. The work was so… clunky, like, yeah, I could do my job, but all my buttons felt so weirdly placed in my rotation, so out of sync.
But this mini rework in 7.05 gave me back everything I had lost. My class feels faster, stronger, more reliable—it was like a cold glass of water on a very sunny day. It's amazing how the class can now do its job so well, how the AoE rotation is very smooth now, and if I'm right, at a 2.14 GCD, we don't need fillers anymore. Finally, I feel the class is what it needs to be.
Take a drink every time a SAM mention Kaiten.
Personally, I'm neither here-nor-there with Kaiten's removal. The change to Midare Setsugekka being guaranteed critical makes up for the lack of Kaiten now (since most gear's crit rate guarantees at least 150% crit damage, anyway.)
I know it was nice when you had the old Kaiten > Midare get a crit on top of the 50% damage boost, but it would always feel bad if it never crit or DH'd. At least the damage profile has good consistency.
Like Shoha, I wish that Hissatsu: Guren just upgraded to Hissatsu: Sen'ei with a new animation that also kept the line cleave of Guren.
As a healer, I'd say it's easier to keep a samurai alive than a viper. While vipers feels like glass cannons lacking any job-specific self mit, Samurai can use their personal mit to help keep themselves healthy. That can be something worth considering when comparing the two adps focused melees.
only job i can play without looking at my hotbars. the muscle memory is even better now that tsubame works the way it does and not a patch ago
I want them to bring back Kaiten, but also make PvP abilities available in PvE, like that cool gap closer, the limit break finisher, and the ice AOE ability. Those are all so cool that PvE Samurai feels incomplete without them
not sure if you noticed but DT sam is literally the same as EW sam plus the pointless tsubame addition and as much as kaiten is everyone's favorite meme i frankly believe the job is way worse without it, both in the way its power fantasy and complexity