@Krabnuckle, personally I'm hesitant to really praise Jishnu's because of how poorly Ranger is able to handle actually firing off the WS on a consistent basis. Victory Smite, for example, is extremely powerful in the hands of a Monk, but Puppetmaster lacks the tools to use it to the sort of effectiveness that Monk can.

The appeal of Blade: Hi over something like Chant du Cygne is really the fact that Ninja is so much more generally useful than Blue mage or Paladin in Abyssea, rather than the strength of the WS itself. Having a 6.0 fTP 4-hit crit WS with a 150% Str mod won't mean much if Scholar is the only job that can use it, etc.