Zanshin? why?

[Superchicken]

um because the job i was doing abyssea as was SAM not as BLM, or RDM/blm, or RDM/DRK, or DNC. the abyssea group i ran with was run on as few members as needed. We didnt go running through abyssea with full alliances like most did when abyssea first came about, we always ran with small numbers typically 7-8. So mostly our one BLM was enough stun most of the time, but guess what, there's times when he's stun was done and he needed me cover the next stun of say Bukhis doom move or w/e move that we wanted to stun. And even all i'm doing is delaying his tp move its enough delay that the blm has his stun timer ready to stun the next time. And who says in my group that all the dd's are always in there feeding tp to an NM? Your assuming things here. Sometimes its just the tank (mnk) in there dding and the dd's are building tp on other mobs and running in to dump TP only. And i dont have 5 merits in bash anyway and definitely not 5 in Ikishoten but seems like you are bashing me here now for not having Ikishoten merits. If you want to know my group 2 merits i'll tell you, Overwhelm 5, bash 4, shikikoyo 1. You dont like those i'm sure, so go ahead tell me their worthless, wont bother me, but again like a stated this is a game where people can do what they want that suits their play style and their needs of what they need or want to do with a certain job. I never told you how to merit your sam simply stated why i would never base my SAM around zanshin and then offered MY OPINION on why i wouldnt and what i did / others could if they wanted to.

If zanshin is what you want and ikishoten go for it, your playing your SAM not me. This whole matter is just like RDM for example. Theres RDM's who will say max your bio III and dia III others will say Para II and Slow II others will say dont matter bio III or dia III at all unless you are gonna max them cause they aint worth it otherwise.

You are getting all hostile saying i said you should merit your SAM like i did, when i never said that, i gave my opinion on zanshin and why i wouldnt merit it, you don't like it ok, you don't have to. You think my merits are stupid, thats fine, your opinion. I at least told you why I (me, myself,) didn't merit zanshin, why i dont think its useful, what i think is more useful and why, etc. Theres other SAMs who will say they dont think zanshin is worth it either, and theres those who will say why it is worth it why blade bash is pointless and why shikikoyo is pointless and why this sucks and that is better and blah blah. I tailor my SAM to what i need it to do for what i use my SAM for, you tailor your SAM for your needs, etc. and thats pretty much it. I at least said why i did my SAM like i did and why i don't think zanshin is worth it and why I would never base my merits around it either.


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I'll even add this, at one point and for a long time i had Ikishoten merits 4 to be exact and after a long period of time with them never saw them to be that worthwhile, so i dumped them and put them in blade bash instead which was more useful to ME and my group i play with for what WE did in OUR events and events where i was on SAM vs another one of my jobs