Basic Level: • The Official Samurai Job Guide by SquareEnix™️ • Bushido: A PvE Samurai Guide by Zombii and boxer ➜ Russian Translation by Клаудокорне Bonus Stage: • Melee Uptime Video Guide by Momo • Samurai PVP Guide by nikroulah

「Standard | Single Weave」 ➜ Your standard opener which will be used in the majority of encounters. Due to phasing, in some instances it may be best to begin with Kasha into Gekko instead. ➜ Most buff windows are between Midare and Hakaze, feel free to shift oGCDs to use double-weaves instead of Iai-weaves if they are easier on your ping. ➜ If you get an early Third Eye proc, move the final Shinten forward and use Gyoten in its place.

Despite gaining significant flexibility in our previously rigid abilities Meikyo Shisui and Tsubame-gaeshi, it is still important in a raid scenario to maintain alignment with our party's raid buffs at 60/120s intervals. Because of this, and our desire to keep as much uptime as possible of our 60 second DoT Higanbana, we are still recommending specific GCD ranges to prevent unintentionally clipping our skills early or drifting them outside of these raid buff windows. Each minute past the first contains a 28/29/30-GCD loop, depending on your GCD. Our base rotation and burst totals 26 GCDs. In the opener and every even minute(2/4/6/etc) we use Ogi Namikiri and Kaeshi: Namikiri, which fill two additional spots to bring us to 28. Every odd minute(1/3/5/etc), these skills are on cooldown. → Because of this, we will alternate how many GCDs of filler we need to use for the rotation. Odd minutes where Ogi Namikiri is on cooldown will require 2/3/4, while even minutes where we have it will require 0/1/2. → Refer to the Bushido guide for an in-depth explanation. 「Visual Guide」 「Filler Guide」 Viable GCD/SkS ranges (with Shifu counted) for looping: ____________________________________________________ | Recast with Shifu | SkS Range | Filler Req. | |___________________|_______________|_______________| |2.15 / 2.14 | 503 - 648 | 2 Filler GCDs | |2.08 / 2.07 / 2.06 | 985 - 1,174 | 3 Filler GCDs | |2.01 / 2.00 / 1.99 | 1,453 - 1,584 | 4 Filler GCDs | |___________________|_______________|_______________| → Pros and Cons can be seen in the BIS section below. Filler Options: 1) Yaten-Enpi = 1 Filler GCD 2) Yukikaze-Hagakure = 2 Filler GCDs 3) Gekko-/Kasha-Hagakure = 3 Filler GCDs → Avoid using Yaten-Enpi as filler unless necessary for boss mechanics or when only a single filler GCD is needed.

"Economy" Savage Prog Set: 「Image | Etro」 ➜ 28 GCD loop, 2 filler GCDs ➜ 9428.28 DPS including 5% party buff. ➜ Uses minimal crafted with only guaranteed melds to save money on gear/materia. Pentamelded Crafted Savage Prog Set: 「Image | Etro」 ➜ 28 GCD loop, 2 filler GCDs ➜ 9806.38 DPS including 5% party buff. ➜ Full crafted, full melds, empty wallet. 2.15 Savage BiS 「Image | Etro」 ➜ 28 GCD loop, 2 filler GCDs ➜ 10,814.28 DPS including 5% party buff. ➜ Classic "Slow SAM". Highest DPS, easiest weaving. For 2.14 swap 2 DH melds for 2 SKS melds. 2.08 Savage BiS 「Image | Etro」 ➜ 29 GCD loop, 3 filler GCDs ➜ 10,755.76 DPS including 5% party buff. ➜ Small hit in DPS in exchange for a slightly extended rotation, offering more flexibility with mechanic downtime. 2.00 Savage BiS 「Image | Etro」 ➜ 30 GCD loop, 4 filler GCDs ➜ 10,684.28 DPS including 5% party buff. ➜ Classic "Fast SAM". Trades a ~1% DPS loss for a faster playstyle with even more filler to maneuver mechanic downtime. May have difficulty iai/double weaving even on the best of connections. Ultimate/Unreal Sync "BiS" Sets: Sets for these fights are community-sourced through use of Jahaudant's Gear Planner. The below sets have been sourced from @Unknown. 「UCoB | UWU | TEA | DSR」

Based on current gear available to us, if you're not using the Gear Planner to figure out what melds are best for your specific situation the below is a decent blind meld order to follow: SKS (to tier) > Crit > Det >= DH *To one of the recommended SkS ranges.

Samurai Gear Planner & DPS Checker ➜ Want to create your own gear sets for Savage, UCoB, UWU or other content, compare your various upgrade options along the path to your chosen BIS or check the theoretical DPS of your gear or any other combination gear? The Gear Planner is what you're looking for. Samurai Rotation Planner (Link is invitation to Jahaudant’s “DPS Tools” discord server) ➜ Want to test possible rotations, techs or alterations, or map out an encounter's GCD order for visual aid/practice? The Samurai Rotation Planner is what you're looking for. Please note this planner requires use of Microsoft Excel and is not available in Google Sheet or OpenOffice format.

Please keep all command usage to #bot_spam Max level basic and advanced guides: ➜ !faq samguide What should I do while leveling? ➜ !faq samleveling Wait, Samurai has positionals? ➜ !faq sampositionals What's BiS? ➜ !faq sambis Is X item better than Y item for me? ➜ !faq samgearing Easy visual guides to the level 90 looping rotation. ➜ !faq samrotation | !faq samfiller How should I AoE? ➜ !faq samaoe Tips and tricks for each Ultimate fight: ➜ !faq samucob | !faq samuwu | !faq samtea Why do we start with Gekko and not Kasha? ➜ !faq samgekkofirst Usage explanations of Hagakure, Meditate, Meikyo, Shoha and Yaten + Enpi (Yatenpi). ➜ !faq samskills How long does Higanbana have to tick to be worth it? ➜ !faq samhiganbana A lot of potency per gcd (ppgcd) comparisons: ➜ !faq samppgcd Max level SkS tiers with Shifu/Fuka: ➜ !faq samsks I have high ping, is this a problem? ➜ !faq samping Various UI setups: ➜ !faq samhotbars Please keep all command usage to #bot_spam

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