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Sayakensa currently is a detriment to a Kensei no matter how you look at it, you gain some crit rate sure which is really good, but Crownbleeder+ also does practically the same thing and gives you bonus stats on top of that.

I think the payoff for having a cursed katana being that your autohits become Dark Damage is cool as heck, and should certainly stay in line with the weapon's theming, but I also think that changing your damage type to Dark more often than enough is a detriment, especially if you're unable to use Indignant Idol to shred off a bit of dark resistance.

I can't express how much I agree with this. I tried a Saya-Kensei build out a while ago and granted my race wasn't Ideal it was still Saya-Kensei or in other terms, Kensei but worse. As it stands that cool factor you mentioned is kinda the only reason to run it because you're not getting much else but looc respect.