Don't believe those "noobies" talking about sam's sux

[code007]

At LV65, you should learn tachi: gekko and be able to do darkness sc with paladin (Swift blade -> tachi: gekko). Total damage = 1.3-1.9k if you have thf sub, 800-1.2k if war sub on VT and IT mobs.

Nick: celisk
server: siren

LV66 sam, 30thf, 37 war, 23 pal, 32blm, 15whm

[swordchucks]

your average NA player has no mind for strategy they just look at auto attack damage and automatically say sam sucks i see this crap all the time on the gamefaqs board

[kujo412]

that's why you see a lack of mages and bards.. and you see all the dragoons and dark knights complaining about not getting parties.. because 80% of all NA players want to deal damage, not support.


the poster didn't do much to help the fact, either. he posted damage numbers..

reasons sam doesn't suck.
1) probably THE most versatile melee class, well balanced attack and defense.

the other really versatile class being war. hence why you see lots of war subbing sam, and lots of sam subbing war. they complement one another.


2) has the holy grail of melee skills "Meditate". 100tp over 5 seconds, and with the af helm i believe it's 140tp.

and all those other melee class who sub sam for meditate.. they only get 60tp from meditate.. and that's pretty much all they get. all those 60 drk/sam and drg/sam also don't last very long after they use their multi-hit ws'es and meditate. while samurai can use meditate any time they please, and if they do draw too much hate they actually have some survivability.


3) skillchain versatility.

as a samurai you can renkei with just about everything.. pull up a skillchain chart and almost every box will have a great katana skill. black mages love you for setting up renkeis and magic bursts, and parties love you for the same reasons. renkei+mb = more damage = mob dies faster = xp faster = everyone happy.


i could probably think up a few more reasons, but it's 2:20am, and i'm about to pass out on my keyboard.

and we aren't THAT bad damage-wise.. i have yet to see a dragoon outdamage me overall and live. the two dragoons that outdamaged me were penta-spammers, and they'd use it twice, super jump, use it again, and die. and i still have yet to see a dragoon outdamage me hit for hit, period. dark knights, rangers, greataxe warriors, and black mages are the only thing that can consistently outdamage me.