Do you even play Summoner? Seems like you don't know too much about the job or the current usage. Not saying I disagree with you on many things, but you seem to not understand some things.
Zantetsuken ACC is based on MP/MaxMP and number of targets. The formula is (MP/MaxMP)/NumOfTargets
- Zantetsuken also fails so much when it comes to killing things, even when it's just 1 target.
so if you have 100% MP it will kill 1 target 100% of the time or two targets with 50% chance each. That means it *could* miss both targets but the chance of that happening is lower. If you're aiming it at 20 monsters then even at 100% MP that's only a 5% chance to kill each monster.
Zantetsuken... This Astral Flow Ability and ALL Astral Flow Abilities need to be jacked to the extreme... It's a level 75 Ability and can't even kill most things outside of Adoulin. The Frontal Cone needs to be widened or changed to a True AoE. Also, at 100+ this ability should do more that 9999. If a non-Astral Flow move can, so should this.
Yes it should do significantly more than 9999 damage, but read above for the rest.
Astral Flow Effect: I'm not sure how this exactly work, but I don't know if a +75 (Max JP) to their stats really helps in the long run. Most times you use Astral Flow, it's for Perfect Defense which is MP based, and ends the effect anyway. Maybe a 'Blood Boon' type thing might be better, where not all you MP is consumed from using Astral Flow? Maybe extend the timer for Astral so you can maybe get another one or 2 in.
DEAR GOD PLEASE DON'T TOUCH THIS UNLESS YOU'RE MAKING IT STRONGER! +75 to all stats, soon to be +100 to all stats is EXTREMELY POTENT. You notice it instantly. If you're not noticing the boost in damage, you may want to look at getting better gear.
Who the hell uses Perfect Defense anymore, and for what? I haven't used it since SoA came out.
I'm having an extremely hard time landing some of the magic abilities anyway in higher level stuff. So I need to start a +MACC gear set at some point.
I say this in the nicest way possible, it seems like you need better gear in general and you need to read up on how abilities work before you assume they suck.
You absolutely do need a M.ACC set. You should aim to at least have ACC (I do Helios ACC/DA/Haste), Magical BP set, Physical BP set, Hybrid set (for Flaming Crush and Burning Strike), M.ACC set, and Summoning skill set.
Fast cast, Elemental Siphon, Pet: PDT, Nuking set (for when /SCH on relevant content.)
I'm sure I've missed something, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head.