Samuro: in-depth strategy guide + many different builds by lino08

Samuro: in-depth strategy guide + many different builds

By: lino08
Last Updated: Nov 1, 2016
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Santy (13) | November 6, 2016 10:13am
Hello. Interesting start to the guide.
However as I have stated under other Samuro guides, after checking the math you are misusing the level 1 talent.

Way of Illusion.
Way of Illusion gives more damage in every possible case. Once completed your basic attack is increased by 40. At level 20 that is 243 instead of 203 witch is 20% increase.
In other words you get the damage bonus from Way of the Blade on every attack, not just critical strikes. And considering now you have higher base attack you also do more damage on critical strikes. Not to mention, that the synergy with all other talents Samuro gets later is based of his basic attack, so Way of Illusion gets even more damage than Way of the Blade as the game progresses. Way of the Blade is the lazy man's Way of Illusion. I am not saying that Way of the Blade is useless. In fact your waveclear build is the only case where it is the better option, since you go for AOE damage and the splitpush/specialist Samuro build. It is just that you are misjudging the talent.

Also I note that in your waveclear build you go for Bladestorm. In that kind of build you really get much more from the control and damage that Illusion Master provides. Without it the clones just run off and attack-move through the minion wave. So they get killed be heroes or static defense structures, due to the bad AI, and you waste a lot of potential.

If you want max burst you need to take Way of Illusion, Phantom Pain and Harsh Winds. No one will just stand in 1 place and wait for you to get benefits from Press the Attack. In theory it works, but in practice not so much, since you have to attack 4 times to get full benefit and at that point you must disengage in most cases.

All your builds are some mix of the 2 meta builds. Unfortunately you are not maximizing your builds to a specific role in the game, but rather trying to do all at ones, which usually leads to bad results. And that will be bad once further nerfs to Samuro come to the live servers.

I is great start however ad hopefully there will be some updates to your guide in the future.
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