Samurai Changes...

[KaworuNagisa]

What exactly did they change on the two weapon skills at the 200 and 225 level? Were the skills themselves changed to something else? more hits? more damage.. or what? =/


Posting it here in the main since it'll get the most traffic btw... You don't have to be a samurai to hear what they changed ;p

[Bushidosan]

Upon activating the samurai job ability "Meikyo Shisui", TP will automatically be raised to 300%.

not sure if that is good or bad...but i hope its good cuz i plan on being samurai.

Adjustments have been made to the "Killer" job traits and "Circle" abilities.
Previously, these abilities had a "Haste" or "Slow" effect. However, now when a monster is attacking a PC with the appropriate "Killer" job trait or a PC under the protection of a "Circle" ability, the creature is occasionally intimidated and unable to attack, similar to the "paralyzed" effect.
The message "(Monster) is intimidated by (Character's) presence" will appear in the log window when the effect takes place. "Killer" meal effects will also be treated in the same way as described above.
In relation to these changes, the "Circle" abilities will now last for one minute and will be available for use once every ten minutes.

i think this effects samurai in some way.

The following weapon skills have been enhanced:

Tachi: Yukikaze
Tachi: Gekko

The skill chain attributes for "Tachi: Gekko" have been changed.

A new member has joined the Troupe Valeriano: a Mithra that bundles sets of arrows together so they take up less inventory space.She will group a set of 99 arrows or bolts of certain types into a single "quiver."
These quivers can be stacked in groups of twelve, essentially allowing you to carry twelve times the number of arrows.

this will effect samurai positively if you use arrows.


that is all i could find.

[KaworuNagisa]

I'm curious how Tachi: Gekko was upgraded...

I heard the 200WS did roughly double the damage it did before (round 400 now..) but it's still a one hitter.. Weak -_-;

So what did they do to Gekko.. the 225WS?

Samurai needs a multi hitter so badly... blah -_-;

[Kerghan]

they do, its called penta thrust.

[KaworuNagisa]

If I had wanted to use the lance - I would have made a dragoon and subbed sam.

Thanks - but no dice. That's not how it works. There's honestly no point to using samurai asa main right now which I suppose is what you fail to understand.

[Kerghan]

aside from the coolness of being the strongest swodsmen ever lived? ^^

[Klumps]

...while still using a lance?

[Kerghan]

lance is still their secondary weapon ^^ so they are swordsmen 1st !!

[Mr. Black]

My plans, although I'm not high enough to confirm, but just from what I've read:

Use 2h Katana to do how a Samurai do, during battle. Upon reaching proper TP limits, break out the properly leveled Polearm, and use the desired WS. Upon completeing said WS, revert back to the 2h Katana.


Or... just use the 2h Katana. Either way, I enjoy the Samurai job.

[Cade]

Changing your weapon reduces your TP to zero.

[Hotspot]

Im loving sam.. the change in 2hr ability saved my group last night twice! Im almost to meditate (3k to 30) so hopefully I can make that work to my advantage.. one thing i was curious about was th rebuild of TP to try to pull 5 ws's in a row? hypothetically (since I have yet to achieve meditate)

TP up to 100%+ use ws1
use 2hr
use 2nd ws
use 3rd ws,
meditate
use 4th ws,
get hit once
and hopefully have enough for a 5th skill..

can that be done or am I dreaming? :p

[imac2much]

A high level SAM with full AF should be able to do multiple pentathrusts all in a row using 2hr, probably 10 or so. The reason? Pentathrust with all the store TP passives and samurai AF should give back about 80% TP back if all hits connect. Possibly even more (I've heard rumors of 90%) but I don't know for sure. So basically:
100% TP -> 1st WS
Use 2hr ->300% TP-> 2nd WS
280% TP -> 3rd WS
260% TP -> 4th WS
.
.
By the time the 2hr ends you're probably on your 7th or 8th Pentathrust... so after it ends use one more -> 9th WS
then Meditate -> 10th WS.

Madness!

By the way, this is all on the assumption that all store TP passives + samurai AF will give back about 80% TP with 5 hits (based on hearsay, I am not a high level SAM ^^). Can someone confirm or disprove this?

[Bushidosan]

off topic

Sucks now that everyone is being samurai....it seemed sort of a job for those who only loved that sort of thing...now it seems just "the thing to do".

i want to be samurai since i first heard of it in game..and ninja....but kind of sucks to see them everywhere you go.

all you people who got samurai first just had to go and brag about how good it was..couldn't keep it a secret could ya.

:p

[KaworuNagisa]

Imac.. You don't gain TP while using the hour..

And if I had wanted a lance - I'd have played a dragoon...

[Paradigm]

Yes, you do - that was the change to SAM 2 Hour - it now increases your TP to 300% when used.