Originally Posted by
Hyrist
On my end? It's a matter of defense totals.
It's a flat 10 Accuracy reduction above Blind 1 floored or capped, but speaking plainly, that's an additional 5% evasion rate, for 1 merit.
Slow II, an additional 4% Slow to your cap requires an additional 4 merits, and even then, you might not see the benefit of that in shorter fights. You ESPECIALLY won't see the benefit of an additional 1% Slow with just one merit for quite a while.
But the additional 5% evasion rate can proc on any attack round or even some TP moves. So long as you're not hard floored or capped on evasion, the extra accuracy loss is more beneficial for the merit, if not for the MP. Think of it as a defensive Brutal Earring in that sense.
And if you DO manage to cap the potency on the spell itself, it's as effective as the Ninja Ni Blind without having the ninja or crapshooting tools trying to land it /ninja.
For a merit I really didn't feel a strong purpose for, I found it a worthwhile purchase to add that additional defensive measure to my spell library. Though, again, I wish these were scrolls.