[Poruku]

The problem with kensei is that you do all these flashy moves but it's ultimately a mid allrounder. Your crit damage sucks compared to daggers, your SWA skills are ok but then spells are just better, you're not tanky and you can't evade without getting carried by rogue or bonder... Kensei has combos and some degree of versatility but the issue is that the combos and good parts of kensei are situational so the versatility is not as good.

When playing kensei I believe the stronger version is using evasion, and a lot of that is due to duelist. Voltiger, flottement, and perfect poise are absolutely incredible. Thus the ideal kensei uses dodge to make use of that, not to mention that absolute pace at the moment is actually kinda fire, although again it's a bit hard to actually pull off especially when it's not a 1v1.

Adding voltiger to tank kensei would make it actually quite good. Voltiger bridges a lack in kensei's surprisingly weak mobility, and lack of crit damage.

I think on top of that we should add a tiny bit more evade to kensei's kit so that it can be played as evade outside of rogue/bonder, like with a martial artist subclass. Something that passively gives you a +5 or +10 evade buff while you're fighting would be good. Like +5 evade until your next turn when you use a 3m+ move skill and another +5 when you hit an enemy with a sword, and maybe another when you trigger a combo. Something like that. I think adding this while also adding the voltiger option for non-evade builds would finally see a rise in this class' viabilitiy where it can actually compete.

The previous changes to kensei were really needed and feel good but the class could really use this push to bring them to a good place. Especially tank kensei which would feel way cooler now