The class was previously too strong. It's overbearing speed and melee damage combined with DoT effects gave it the ability to pretty much destroy anyone or anything. I think that the only class that actually was able to take on a good samurai in a 1v1 was a Beguiler with MassPiggify.
Their DoT effects were lessened to make them less potent, their WindWalk was reduced to Speed II, and their melee damage was also reduced slightly. This prevented them from being able to completely destroy any player at the speed it did before. This also made them less of a caster killer. These were necessary changes.
However, with the addition of AsuraSlash, combined with the bug that causes all abilities to go through armor, they have a new method of bursting targets down. They are just as powerful as they used to be in regards to melee, and that isn't something that was intended.
Using fearless in combination with Strike, AsuraSlash, Cleave, or Bash, they are able to deal insane amounts of burst damage--almost to the point of Ninja Backstab ganking.
This is bad for a couple of reasons.
1. They should not be able to deal this amount of damage so quickly.
2. Their "primary" abilities (disgrace/mortalwound) are no longer used as much.
The next update is supposed to "slow down" Herocraft combat. We are attempting to make fights last longer. One of the things that needs to be alleviated for this update is the Samurai being able to burst down a target this quickly. We will try to accomplish this while also ensuring they switch back over to disgrace as their bread and butter ability.
To be honest i don't like asura slash as a skill for samurai, it doesn't fit the class all that well and even though it does some damage to the caster it is too strong of a nuke for samurai to have. IMO asura slash should be removed or put on a really high cd. What i think would be best is if bladegrasp were to be reworked. If bladegrasp were to have a far shorter cd, duration and a slightly lower stamina cost. So that it could be used tactically instead of something that you use and just swinging your sword. If the duration, stamina cost and cd were lowered you could use it multiple times in a fight.
As bladegrasp stands now it has a decent cd and the samurai uses it and just tries to smack as many people as they can within its duration.
If bladegrasp were reworked it would actually be able to be incorporated into a fight with methodology instead of a short period of time in which you run around spam clicking.
I don't have time to revise this post and i feel as though i am starting to ramble but this is essentially what i think will happen if this change were to occur.
It would enable samurai to remain a counter to rogues and this would allow changes to be made to the class so that it doesn't facefuck casters as soon as they touch them.
-The short duration of blade grasp with lessened nuke damage for samurais would allow them to counter rogues and remain even with other warriors because of the short durations of blade grasping. With this compensation samurai's nuke could be lowered without making them not have enough damage to kill rogues. The samurais would not be able to bladegrasp against casters for obvious reasons. With this change samurais could remain where they are relative to rogues and other warriors while not completely taking a dump on all casters.
A median between nuke nerfing and blade grasp buffing could be found and the change would have to be made all at once so that samurais wont either suck or rape everything.
I was thinking:
bladegrasp:
Duration: 2s
cd: 10-20s
Reagent: lower to 1 iron bar because it would be used more often.
Some people might say "This would turn bladegrasp into a shittier version of disarm" which if no other changes were made, would be true.
To compensate for this the message for blade grasp could be removed. When people are disarmed they automatically know because of the sound and the lack of weapons in their hands, they imediated run or attempt to punch you away. If the message for blade grasp were removed people most likely would not notice that they could not melee you until it was too late for them. By the time the person realizes that you had bladegrasped you would have gotten several hits off on them and the duration would most likely have ended so there would be nothing that they could do about it now. Some people might read this far into my suggestion but several to most will read half of this or just skim and will just think "remove asura slash and nerf blade grasp" is all that i am saying. If you are still reading this, good for you, you have a decent attention span.
This post was mainly just rambling and jumbled ideas but if anyone could give me their feedback then my idea could be refined or changed if people deemed it worthy to be considered.
been trying to pump out as much testing on Samurai, seems to be that only casters (Namely, wizards and Necros) are currently the only troublesome classes aside from Sammy on Sammy that bring a problem to combat with a Samurai. Any other class is pretty easy to destroy with a simple Fearless, Cleave, AS, auto attack-Cleavespam.
