Bushido - The Way Of The Samurai (A Guide) V. 2.0

For S5 I have literally almost zero doubts.
I was more pondering on S4 I guess.

I have enough Galli for a S4 and honestly I'm not sure if I'm ever gonna find the strength to get a second S5, which implies I might be stuck on S4 forever or for an incredibly long time.

And at that point you wonder, is it worth it? Should I just keep those galli stored and see what happens in the next ~6 months?
Because I'm sure for several other weapons the question is a solid "yes, it's still very very worth it", for GKT in particular though, given the things I mentioned in the previous post, I was getting more tepid feelings about it =/

Gkatana is one of the few primes that is a clear winner and next step in a jobs weapon progression. 100% worth getting if you use sam for anything.

Even at stage4 it will be your best physical ws option on sam, by quite a bit. Hybrids should still favor aeonic.

SAM gets TP so fast even for Hybrids I use Prime for the extra macc. Add in Mpaca head and Moonshade and the TP bonus from Aeonic isn't as big of a deal on SAM as it in on other jobs.

Mumei wrecks Fudo as others have said, its really not close. 10/10 would make prime GKT again.

It's worth mentioning that the extra macc on Kusanagi is only present on St5 (and it's incredibly small). Doji has the same macc (and more mdmg) as Kusa St4.

I've tried both (St4 vs Doji) for hybrids and IME, the Doji is more consistent. You also don't have to keep up AM which is a nice bonus.

The primes have the highest macc *skill* of any weapon type.

Compared to aeonic the macc, which skill is part of, on kusanagi is a lot higher, to the point kusa out dds aeonic on sortie bosses just using hybrids.

s4 269 skill, 30macc
s5 277 skill, 35macc

Doji 228 skill, 30macc, mdmg 155

If you make S4 Kusanagi, you will never wear another GK again. You can make a case for low buff/trust situations to use Doji for hybrids but thats it. Kusanagi is king.

sim has S4 ~7% higher than masa and S5 ~10% higher in my made up dt35% brd cor rdm scenario on apex for masa vs mumei

The GKT is one of the better s4's because samurais white damage is so low you don't miss much losing the triple damage procs

For hybrids I think they're close but I prefer doji still, unfortunately. If I don't have the macc support required I will just use mumei

Gonna be honest, I put 1 swart into Doji and didn't bother with the rest. Once I got R15 Masamune I almost never used Doji. Even for hybrids like in Seg farming, I still used Masamune because I didn't feel like dropping AM3. The damage from Masamune was almost always similar and I didn't lose dps over the course of the event by not switching to Doji (actually gaineed dps).

What Taint said is very true:


Most TP Bonus from it is wasted simply because SAM can over TP a lot. So if hybrids was the only thing keeping Doji alive, I can imagine Kusanagi even @ stage 4 would retire Doji/Masamune immediately.

Completely agree. Thats why I only suggested low buff situations, where attack and TP generation may be a little more starved. But in party situations, SAM doesnt have that problem. So give me the prime all day, everyday.

Why would I want to use an inferior great katana? =/