- Consolidation: Seigan temporarily replaces Third Eye after proc.
- Consolidation: Merciful Eyes is now simply a proc-effect. While Eyes Opened is active, you gain a shield equal to 400 potency of healing which will only affect attacks which would reduce you below 20% HP. Can prevent fatal damage if the 400 potency would save you. Shield consumed upon use of Seigan. If not consumed by the time Eyes Opened ends, heals for the remaining shield amount.
- Consolidation: When Guren would strike only one target, Senei is used instead. (Appears as a dynamic key based on number of enemies in front of you.) May be decoupled by manually adding Senei to your hotbar while Guren is already present.
- Meditate decoupled from the server tick. Now grants 5 Kenki and one out of ten Meditation stacks per tick, but ticks twice per player GCD for a maximum of 10 ticks. Animation gains an initial flourish that lets it better fit woven use. Now has 2 charges, so that you always have 1 to use for a period of downtime.
- Shoha now simply deals 60 potency per stack, to a maximum of 600 potency at 10 stacks. Thus, a full Meditation at level 80 does 1200 potency, up from the 600 at level 70.
- Tsubame-Gaeshi now has an 8-second grace period (i.e. holds onto your most recent Iaijutsu for 8 seconds).
- Hagakure returned. Gives 15 Kenki per use on a 25-second CD. With no other changes, this would be worth a mere 32 potency. With the changes listed further below, it will give 0.
- Hagakure now introduced earlier, at level 58. Swaps places with Merciful Eyes.
- Shinten again gives only 300 potency (efficiency 12, down from 12.8), returning Samurai's positionals to a smooth potency value of 60. This will be a running theme.
- 20 potency from each finisher shuffled instead to Hakaze. This does not change combo potency or ppm (except faintly during MKSS), but means that Kaiten on Gekko/Kasha does not simply replace Shinten at 12 potency per kenki). This reduces the net potency value of Hagakure from 32 to 0; it is now purely a QoL tool. It also puts SAM at a simple 420 ppgcd outside of TG/MKSS.
- Seigan buffed to 240 (efficiency 16), giving it a potency bonus over Shinten of 60 (4x15). More noticeably worth using.
- Guren smoothed back to 800 potency. Senei smoothed to 1000.
- Iaijutsu now uses a cast time of 60% of GCD from the start (1.5 base, 1.35 under Shifu and 1.3 after level 78). Enhanced Iaijutsu changed to Flash of Steel, which gives Gyoten and Yaten a second charge each and allows Iaijutsu and Tsubame-Gaeshi a 20-yalm range when carrying at least 10 additional Kenki and a charge of Gyoten, causing it to use Gyoten to immediately reach the target to deliver the Iaijutsu attack. This takes up no additional animation lock and Gyoten will go off slightly before the cast would otherwise complete such that the travel time does not delay the GCD.
- Tsubame-Gaeshi now triggers only 60% of a GCD, equal to an Iaijutsu cast, making its delay feel far smaller and smoother. (This is worth roughly 168 ppm, made up for by the Shinten/Senei minor potency nerfs.)
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