Thanks for the guide! I wasn't saving up the Meikyo for those burst phases so I see why my damage was dipping now.

Really good guide, well explained while remaining succinct. Thank you!

Just subscribed because the guide is really well put thanks

I appreciate the guide but I’m honestly too smol brain to understand, but I’m willing to try and learn Samurai even if it takes awhile.

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

You can do it!

@2high4eso

Жыл бұрын

Sam easiest roto lol

@MichiKazuma

Жыл бұрын

My brain is also smol, i haven't played SAM since 3.x content and its so different while looking the same so my brain hurt

@CmonstahxD

Жыл бұрын

​@@2high4esoreaper easiest . Sam also ez but reaper is most brain dead by a long shot

@mrdarkstar3756

Жыл бұрын

Samurai in a nutshell if you don't want to deep dive. Keep dot on and Midare away as you collect your stickers.

subbed, machinist and dancer and now this one with good info

This guide is excellent. Thank you!

Subbed fantastic video my guy

For everyone struggling to understand everything right away, just play a bit and try to get a feeling for the 3 Job gauges and how everything is aligned together. Then rewatch this guide and you will perfectly understand everything, including when you need to fill and when not.

@Juliacare

11 ай бұрын

Solid advice, it all seems overwhelming at first but taking a few moments to practice and rewinding the video a few times will make you master the job in no time!

Samurai was my main and favorite job on ffxi for a decade. It is difficult at times with a controller and being a newer player, but my love for the job pushes me forward

@Juliacare

3 ай бұрын

You can do it!

Thanks for this amazing guide! Im going to sub, your guides are amazing and easy to understand but it would be great if you shared your XHB set up for people who use controller like me

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

you require the nin role in the balance servers to see it: discord.com/channels/277897135515762698/918954680074256394/929904146943983687

Hey thanks for the Video. Im a PS5 Player and i Always Hope to find Guide which can Help me optimize my gameplay. Thankyu so much 🖤🍥🍜

I do have question related to the opener, why you wouldn't open with the dot damage immediately? I've kinda naturally gone to meikyo -> true north -> kasha -> higanbana -> kasha -> gekko, since wasting one meikyo stack on yukikaze feels awful considering how fast you can get it.

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

This is a good question and it all has to do with your party. Generally all rotations in final fantasy take about 3 GCDs to get started so most raid buffs get sent out 3 GCDs in. By putting our DoT into the raid buffs we get the full increase in damage over the entire duration of the DoT. Depending on how many buffs and the types of buffs this can be up to 40%! That's why it's key that our strongest actions are put into these raid buffs as it's such a huge gain. The "wasted" meikyo stack isn't truly wasted just slightly less potent, and that decrease is less than the increase we gain from putting that first midare and higanbana into buffs.

So do I press meikyo shisui on cooldown? Or just use it when I need, or hold it for burst windows?

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

you typically use it on the odd and even minute burst around the time your kaeshi comes off cd, doing a small burst on the odd minute like so: midare kaeshi shisui gcd higan and in your even minute you would do ikishoten midare kaeshi shisui gcd higan ogi kaeshi ogi fairly easy to see, just keep looking at your kaeshi cooldown

Oh man that 2% sub is brutal. Lol you got a sub from me and I haven’t even looked at your content yet.

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I hope you learn something from my videos ❤️

The filler section was so informative!

Been wondering what to do to get my parse up. Seems like I need to try to stay within auto attack range better and use more filler. Also upgrade my gear a bit. Forgot to use my twined last time 😅

@Juliacare

8 ай бұрын

You can throw your logs into xivanalysis or ask in the sam questions channel of the balance discord

The filler info is really what I need, I seem to lack the iq to comprehend it though. Maybe watching it more will help but til then im a smooth brain reaper main

I have 2.14 SKS, I go Opener>Cooldown>Odd>Filler but it doesnt align my GCDS, I still have 10-15s left on Ikishoten. What Am I doing wrong? For filler I use Hakaze>Yuki>Hagakure.

Jesus Christ, it's like trying to learn trig all over again. My brain is goo.

When endwalker released , u stating the opener seems scary is a very true thing

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

But! After some practice it becomes second nature

@edimsm6069

Жыл бұрын

@@Juliacare very true, i just remember reaching lvl90 back in 6.0 and looking at the opener thinking to myself "what in the world"

how you created this hot bar for gamepad??

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

It’s the cross hotbar setting for controller players

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

you require the nin role in the balance servers to see it: discord.com/channels/277897135515762698/918954680074256394/929904146943983687

What outfit is that your wearing ???

@Juliacare which melee job is easiest to play, your top 2 at level 90?

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

Thats a difficult question as it depends a lot on what is easier for a person. I personally played a lot of casters so the casting of SAM’s quickdraw abilities isn’t bothersome for me but that could be detrimental for others. Generally DRG and RPR are considered easiest, although each has their quirks, like ogcd animation locks on drg and double enshroud plus the occassional cast on rpr. SAM and NIN are also not too complex, both just having a higher point of entry due to the mudra system and the fact sam’s cast more than smn’s. Lastly, monks are without a doubt the most difficult melee to play.

@Iamvandamme

Жыл бұрын

@@Juliacare great response, I am am also a caster but I want to get into melee jobs, I don't want to play RPR because I see them everywhere, so I was just looking for a Melee that won't break my brain with rotation starting off 🤣 and also if I mess up rotation I can recover.

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

@@Iamvandamme probably NIN then, its a bit of a gap to learn mudras but once you have its 15 seconds of dopamine into 45 seconds of brain afk.

@Iamvandamme

Жыл бұрын

@@Juliacare thanks alot

Dunno if you'll see this i was a sam main in stormblood and shadowbringers. And dragoon in endwalker. Curious if you think dtagoon or sam are easier at this point? Im getting back in as warrior but deliberating what to have as dps class. Great vids btw

@Juliacare

2 ай бұрын

Hmm, I think they're difficult in different ways. Neither is particularly hard, but each has their own difficulties. I'd just try and see whichever you click more with, or enjoy more and go with that.

Do I have to cast third eye on cooldown?

@Juliacare

11 ай бұрын

Yes, although you must be sure that you take damage within the duration of the shield. If not, then hold on to it until the next instance of damage you'll take and use it on that.

Not too many can walk the path of Samurai. To be honest Even Samurai don’t even know which path to walk. It is a fucking confusing path.

Why is it i cant find 1 video where they use the balance 6.5 sam opener? Is it the wrong opener or is everyone just doing variations? Does it matter in the grand scheme of it all? I just wanna do sam properly😢

@Juliacare

7 ай бұрын

I have no idea what you're talking about, the balance opener hasn't changed since 6.1. This video was made in cooperation with the balance mentors, as I am one as well.

Hello Mr. Julia!

@Juliacare

5 ай бұрын

Hello

Yoo!! This will be really helpful to me as I really wanted to be Samurai the moment I was introduced to the game. 🎮 I'm happy to see another controller user though! Would you mind teaching me or sharing your hotbar set up?

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

you require the nin role in the balance servers to see it: discord.com/channels/277897135515762698/918954680074256394/929904146943983687

I loved your previous guides even on jobs that I already had played a bit, I decided to pick up SAM for this tier and this is once again a great guide. My only gripe with SAM is them removing an ability like Kaiten that had a genuine use, but not streamlining the single target/aoe veriants (like the RDM burst combo is all AoE, and it's fine, it's chill) of various other abilities, the way pretty much every other job has done, I haven't had trouble comfortably playing a job with my current skillbar set-up be it NIN or whatever other action heavy/button heavy job (except BLM, but that's a different story), but something about SAM still doesn't feel right and I think I'll have to straight up rearrange all of my skillbars to pretty much focus heavily on single target comfort, since that's what matters for Savage raiding usually, and will see where I go from there. Hopefully muscle memory and practice with the job does it's thing.

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

I had issues with the same thing, indeed putting ST first will make it doable. Especially if you managed to survive NIN.

@Dwesk

Жыл бұрын

@@Juliacare haha yeah NIN can be a lot but I think the difficulty is overstated once you get into the groove of things.

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

@@Dwesk I think its the same for SAM. The rotation is slow and static. A lot of buttons you also press only once per minute or even two. I think the filler being 7 buttons is very interesting personally. Which is why SAM is my favourite melee.

@joshstorie246

Жыл бұрын

​@@Juliacare highest DPS in game from my understanding it beats out BLM by a bees dick for highest DPS I could be wrong though

@ohmbasa

11 ай бұрын

I play on PS4 and I had to move my buttons around because I usually have my first single target attack of a combo mapped to the circle button, the second one mapped to X, and then the third one mapped to square but because of the way sen works it was throwing me off. Now I have it so that my first attack is mapped to the x button so that the sand on the left aligns with square (which is also on the left) and the sen on the right alligns with circle (which is also on the right). I main Dark Knight and when I went back to playing it it totally threw me off and I kept hitting the wrong button, messing up my combo so I had to move that around and I expect I'll have to change it for every job that I play. Samurai is the only job that I have to really do that for

Hi, your video is helping me a lot thank you for the explanation. I have a request tho. Could you be willing to add more accurate subtitles to your video? In case there are other people like me who have either a hearing disability or an auditory processing disability. There are a lot of times I personally can't understand what your saying and its not exactly a you issue its just an accesiblity issue.

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

I understand the issue however that would require so much work or money from me that it's not really worth it. I'm doing this as a hobby after all. If anyone wishes to help me subtitle my videos then I do welcome the help.

what glamour katana are u using?

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

That’s the p8s weapon

@SteamPlayer-nr7vc

Жыл бұрын

@@Juliacare but isnt the p8s katana flame/orange? And thanks for the reply

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

@@SteamPlayer-nr7vc yea the image is a little touched up by the artist who makes them. Their link is in the description, they make stellar pictures.

@SteamPlayer-nr7vc

Жыл бұрын

@@Juliacare ohhhh okay thank you!

@SteamPlayer-nr7vc

Жыл бұрын

subbed btw for the fast replies :)

i love your guides, but im not going to lie i think i had to listen to the filler section 7 times because my head couldnt get around the idea of using abilities to fill time in-between cooldowns

@Juliacare

2 ай бұрын

Its indeed a little bit of a foreign concept to most ffxiv jobs as they all kinda loop nicely in 2 minutes. Samurai sadly doesn’t so we have to do this to line up with the buff windows better.

Strange when only have 15 or lower on kenki getsugekka hit higher compared to nearly full kenki.

@Juliacare

10 ай бұрын

That sounds like confirmation bias. It shouldn’t work like that, and if it did then it would’ve been known across the TC community.

I cant find my kenki bar ^^'

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

Did you do all your job quests?

does the samurai deal the most damage?

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

It does the most aDPS in the game, which is dps plus the damage you did into other peoples buffs. It doesn’t do the most rDPS because they dont have any raid buff themselves.

I’m a free form samurai though

Still dont get this

Me watching this at lvl 67 🤔

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

You're almost there! And the idea behind SAM doesn't really change, you just get more added on. Maybe disregard the opener and burst sequences and wait with that till you're level 90. But the rest you can soak in to learn SAM better already!

I dont understand any of these openers and why you use the abilites you do, i just copy the the opener on a sheet and i learn it. Just listening to you explaining it makes me confused and lost so learning by sight is easier. instead of learning any of the details why.

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

Then the video isn’t for you. Everyone learns in different ways, plenty have expressed that the video helped them a lot.

@imjisun

11 ай бұрын

I also feel the same way. I can’t read stuff on the video and also listen to them explaining stuff at the same time. Better to just read it and do it myself.

ngl the filler concepts still blows my tiny beginner brain. Ill keep at it though as I love the job

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

You’ll get it, just a little more practice and it’ll click for you

@blazeburner4039

10 ай бұрын

@@Juliacare I still don't get it, I could refresh dot with Meikyo Shisui at odd minute. Why do I need 2 filler GCDs? And when do I use 2 filler GCDs? After Midare?

@Juliacare

10 ай бұрын

@@blazeburner4039 so your even minute burst lines up with buff windows. Your job as samurai is to deal as much damage as possible into the damage buffs from your party members, you cant do that if you misaligned yourself, which is bound to happen if you don't use filler in a full up time fight.

Yeah the I'm way to smooth brain to understand the GCD table...

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

each path grants a unique sticker, 1 sticker can be spent on your dot, 2 on your aoe, 3 on a powerful st action. The two 3 part combo finishers have a positional, and they grant a buff which increases damage dealt, or decreases your recast time. Alternate to maintain your DoT, spend on AoE if 3+ targets, else get as many 3 sticker midare casts off. Have fun ❤️

I can smell the button bloat all the way out here...

Why does final fantasy have to make their jobs so complex for no reason

@Juliacare

3 ай бұрын

A job having a static rotation does not make it complex or difficult. All jobs in the game are very approachable and some allow for deeper optimization which however is never a requirement to clear any content in the game with an above average performance.

Wait so you cannot be a Samurai at level one really you have to level up to level 19 to become Samurai? Stupid

@Juliacare

5 ай бұрын

samurai got released at a later expansion and therefore lorewise your character isnt introduced to them until that point. You have to get up to level 50 actually. Its a bit of a shame I agree, newer players might want to start off with samurai or another job locked behind a level / quest. It is what it is though and getting level 50 doesnt take too long.

I hate samurai.

Its Iaijutsu not Iatsu :P If its easier, just call it quick-draw, as that what it translates to, quick-draw techniques. And even people with a single braincell will understand if they look at the... sheathe and draw animations of the Iaijutsu skills

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

Gonna mess up some pronunciations when making this many guides, it is what it is. Don’t think anyone is confused about what I meant as a giant tooltip is on the screen at the same time ^^

@ich3730

Жыл бұрын

jesus christ, who cares xD

@verzop3597

Жыл бұрын

Westerner moment

@Juliacare

Жыл бұрын

@@verzop3597 very true, my girlfriend is chinese and I still struggle pronouncing her chinese name after all this time.

@FartBox_BeatBox

Жыл бұрын

@@Juliacare that's embarrassing, you shouldn't ever tell people that

Not a Helpful guide for newer players.