Quote Originally Posted by wintermute View Post
"Building a set reliant on missing" sounds bad just by looking at it, and yes... Zanshin can miss too, but Zanshin procs have a +35 Accuracy Bonus. And Blade Bash isn't useful. If you're soloing something you're /DNC and you can use some of your TP that you're getting out the ass on Hobaku's, and if you don't want to waste TP then you can always use Violent Flourish. And in parties or whatever that are fighting enemies that need to be stunned at certain points, well... I've rarely been in party that relies on the Samurai to stun things. That's why we have PLD/DRK/BLU.
you are basing blade bash usefulness on parties? On big NM fights that do moves that need to stunned blade bash is very useful, you dont always have plentiful amount of stunners in your pt to cover a good stun rotation and we all know that BLU's headbutt stun doesnt stun all the time and less more than it does on higher end NM's. And the accuracy of violent flourish is not 100% with /dnc and /dnc in in other situation other than being solo on sam is >< imo. And using your TP to stun with Hobaku vs dumping your TP into fudo,gekko,kasha, self scing etc is more useful in many situations. Now i can tell you when using hobaku was nice was during salvage during the 75 cap days to stun the Poroggo nm's frog chorus move. To me meritting zanshin and building your SAM around missing enough to where zanshin would even be a factor and worthwhile ( i dont think its worthwhile at all) hurts your SAM more than it helps if you build your gear and merits to not include zanshin.

i think you'll get better use out of your merits when you put them into meditate recast, store tp, blade bash, shikikoyo (some will say no here cause they dont like to give out the TP but hey in abyssea when the whm's needs some TP for that hexa strike proc, it comes in handy) and overwhelm.