I don’t mean to suck on the samurai’s pee pee too much, but why does it seem like the Samurai is underrated? Do people think he’s too under-powered? Is he just boring? I thought the samurai really sucked at first too, but after playing him for a while, he became one of my favorite classes because of his ability.
High Burst Damage:
Samurai may be lacking in weapon dps but his ability’s dps more than makes up for it, only being rivaled by the wizzy. Tiered wakis alone can do 1800 damage in one fell swoop, and with its low-ish 80mp cost, can be just as spammable as a spell. Not to mention, it also exposes which will boost consecutive waki attacks after.
Consistency:
Unlike spell bombs, wakis deal much more damage per shot and has less shots to hit. Not to mention, piercing shots; resulting in higher dps on higher defense targets than most spell bombs. Sure it has a limited range but being a samurai, you’re going to be fighting around that close anyways.
UT:
Samurais have a nice selections of UT’s. Crossing fires for tons of damage. The Eastern winds is actually the best waki IMO. It covers a wide area acting almost like an AOE and from my experience, consistently hits enemies for around 1000 damage a pop. The Void Blade is also surprisingly useful for rushing dungeons and specific bosses like the Crystal Worm Mother because if you didn’t know, with the Samurai’s 75 att cap, the void blade is his strongest weapon aside from the Celestial Blade.