COMPLETE Samurai Job Breakdown from DAWNTRAIL Media Tour! 

So looks like the old Midare animation is still in the game outside of Meikyo. This will give samurai some really really nice animation variety.

Mr Happy’s pronunciations of the Japanese names have gotten so much better since storm blood haha

Lol Samurais now has more self healing than Dark Knight.

Tendo Setsugekka looks so good. Definitely love the flavor of the animation this time around

As a Samurai nerd, this pleases me.

SAM main here to weigh in, I don't find any of these changes to be bad. Less timer management with the Meikyo > Tsubame adjustment is pretty nice, having animation mix-ups with the Tendo Goken/Setsugekka is actually pretty sweet, and a much needed Shoha merge is phenomenal. Combined with the Role Action changes for Melee DPS, and I can confirm your assessment of "eatin' good" this expansion.

Coming here straight from the DRK video where they got a 1200 potency heal attached to a 120s cooldown, seeing SAM get a 500 potency heal on a 15s cooldown is... both hilarious and depressing xD DRK is my main tank and SAM is my main DPS by the by.

The fact samurai has more healing then drk is just so pathetic on drks end. Lmao the comments pointed that out and thats hilarious

Missed opportunity to give Ninja the tendo buff; so you could have had NIN tendo xD.

Nice. I like it.

okay, i was a bit worried about how meikyo and tsubame are gonna play together but that actually sounded alright. the rotation is basically similar at least.

THE THREE SENS OF THE SILVER SAMUWAI: HONOR DISCIPLINE RESPECT

I have a question about the Tendo skills. Will the Tendo buff persist through Higanbana and not be eaten by it since there isn’t a Tendo Higanbana? In the current Samurai opener you Meikyo to use Midare, Meikyo again right after to use Higanbana, then fill in a second Midare with a Yukikaza combo outside of Meikyo. Will this still work?

Hoping someone note that Tendo Setsugekka has around 3.12 sec recast, not 2.5 sec as Midare Setsugekka. It still an upgraded version though.

New Setsugekka is only missing *REND* *MAIM* *KILL*

Shouha and Shouha 2 did feel silly to me in a job full of abilities with really cool JPN names.

As someone who doesn't regularly play Samurai, I'm curious to hear what you SAM-mains think about the Ikishoten follow-up costing 50-gauge It sounds kinda questionable to me

Nice 😅 was wondering what’s new about samurai Thank you for info and have good days 🍻👍

Sam main since storm and i still can't pronounce any of the names Iam like do flower combo then moon and ice then unload all of them and each move you do hit the poke move to spend your angry sword gauge T_T I feel bad

Does SAM the melee still continue to require to stand still more than SMN the caster?

I feel like the heal on Tengetsu being after the buff expires will make it kind of pointless. 8 seconds is so long that by the time it goes off most healers would have already healed you up from the damage so its wasted. I get that they didnt want to add another button by doing something like bringing back merciful eyes, but 8 seconds is too long. It should be like 2 or 3 seconds.

Kaeshi Higanbana is deleted from the game! Finally!

so let me get this straight. ikki now gives ogi and zan at the same time, and its gauge gen is nullified? so one button for two super moves? y do this? am i misunderstanding something?

About Kaiten... one thing they could do to implement it back could be: share the same slot / keybind of New Combined Shoha, giving Shoha the priorty when it procs ( this would solve the buttons bloat issue). Give Kaiten ( no kenki cost) the auto-crit trait on Midare. In my eyes its a win / win.. anyone see flaws in this? Or im just shouting nonsense?..

I was hoping for a pre-combat gap closer to bring us into parity with every other melee in the game. Very happy about the other changes though.

Zanshin 0.0 Yeeeesssss give us more Sephiroth moves square.

As a SAM main that enjoys the current rotation, even if I do miss Kaiten like the rest of us, I'm pretty happy to see it mostly be the same. One thing I'm curious about is where Higanbana fits into the opener. With only being able to use Tsubame after Meikyo feels like you really don't want to use the second Meikyo stack just to Hinganbana and not get a Tsubame. I wonder if we'll now do our Yukikaze combo between Meikyos to get Higanbana up without losing a Tsubame use. But I'm sure those better than me will figure it out quick. Or I'm currently doing the wrong opener and nothing changes lol.

No Hissatsu: Kaiten means no real gauge management, even with Senei and Guren being 60 seconds now since they still share a cooldown... And Kaeshi: Higanbana is still pointless and they need to rework both Higanbana and Kaeshi: Higanbana to make the latter more usable, and locking Tsubame-gaeshi behind Meikyo Shisui hurts Samurai's flexibility more than it helps... gonna skip Samurai this time around if the devs don't address those issues I just mentioned...

It's always fun listen to Samurai's rotation as non-Samurai player :l

I'm worried Shinten Spam is still a thing. People want Kaiten, but I don't know if i want to keep spamming shinten into Dawntrail....

I called the meikyo buff with tsubame being removed, but boy was I wrong about the zanshin thing. I assumed that was just an upgrade animation to ogi namikiri. The core rotation wont seem to change too much though. Interesting changes, but sadly not enough to pull me back into being a samurai main. It just doesn't feel the same without kaiten.

My Prediction from the live letter that our rotation basically wasn't going to change is correct then, but with senei being 60 seconds and the new ikishoten move costing 50 gauge we get minor adjustments to ken ki management in not pressing shinten a few times so it's almost like we got kaiten back.

meikyo being mandatory for tsubame use is really lame.

what? i use higanbana on 2 target boss.

Sadge that the Tsubame change still made it to this version. 😩

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No kaiten... sadge

I see SAM is back to having all the AOE hitboxes: circle, line, and cone. At least all the GCDs are still circles. Conal Tenka Goken was terrible.

I have been wanting Guren/Senei to be 60 seconds instead of 120 seconds since the very beginning in Stormblood! Not a fan of the new Midare animation though, and REALLY not a fan of the new Tenka Goken animation either, but at least the original conal Tenka Goken seems to live on in Ikishoten's Zanshin. And these are new Tendo variations that exist only from Meikyo Shisui phases, so I guess I can be glad that the regular versions still exist? Hopefully next expansion they find a Kaeshi use for Higanbana, sorta like how it took till Shadowbringers for ninjas to find a use for Hyoton's ninjutsu combination by Kassatsu-ing it. The overt refusal to bring back Kaiten in any form after the well known nearly unanimous fan consensus is still an insult that is not to be forgotten or forgiven.

Still no kaiten...

Still mad about Kaiten. I'll stick with Reaper for now...

gdi, was honestly hoping at least the zanshin aoe thing to be a replacer / upgrade for shinten so we can spam that every 50 kenki, instead of the boring small ass baby shinten spam after losing kaiten... And they couldn't at least somehow weave the kaiten animation into the Iaijutsu wind up animation, for us who miss it? At least devs combined Shoha, so that's one complaint over, and with Senei / Guren moved to 60s, there's a bit more to do in 1 mins... -sigh- I'll prob just level this along with Mnk in MSQ so the xp doesnt go to waste and shared gear, but hoping the Vergil and Kaiten -cough- things will be updated with these new clean animations or back in working order in a month or more, vanilla Shinten spam just looks and plays like -all the expletives-, what @&%_+("% dev approved of these job states

Guess I'll never understand or get along with other Samurai players, according to all the whining in this comment section. Its been the DPS I've enjoyed the most, and played the most since 5.2 ShB. I loved how it evolved in EW, and Kaiten being deleted in it was the single greatest yet most objectively understated change they ever made. It served as nothing more than seeing an idiot waving his sword around before a big attack. So to see it still gone, and witness the rotation further evolve in DT in flashy yet meaningful ways is downright sublime. Nothing in this video told me otherwise, try as some whiners might in their attempt to convince some of the more casual players.

These changes sucks. I get it that you get better animations and skill upgrades; however, unless there are more changes, samurai basically is forced to do the standard rotation, and lose the possibility to perform no hagakure rotation. Forcing tsubame to be used with meikyo greatly reduces the flexibility of samurai, and the maximum damage of samurai will be way lower (in case one doesn’t know, samurai can do optimal rotations without hagakure by managing each minute’s skill order thx to meikyo’s 55cd). Good for new samurai players but sucks for skilled players.

Thank God, Kaiten remains deleted. Tired of the whining over such a filler of a button.

Recycling old abilities as new ones is pretty damn lazy and pathetic, wow. Zanshin is just sams original aoe attack before endwalker with some added flare to it. If square manages to survive with this expansion, the next expansion will probably be their last since they want to keep holding off on making the gameplay more unique and fun.

Me playing SAM and wait Dawntrail -> 🙃🤤😍 PS. Not care for kaiten. 😅

Really boring update for a job that's desperately needed some actual spice since Kaiten was dropped.

I need to accept and learn to be less passionate about a Job in XIV... as this has made me the least excited for a XIV expansion, at least for the Job gameplay of my favorite Job

no kaiten and there are still “guaranteed critical hits” stuff hahahahhahahshahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhshshshahahahahahahha