Zanshin? why?

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you talked about you didnt see whats wrong with getting a nana gk and meritting ikishoten, well the purpose of the nana sword is for the zanshin activation rate, and ikishoten is based off zanshin attacks, so you are talking about zanshin. So with that GK and Ikishoten merits you are setting up your SAM to play off the zanshin trait merits in zanshin or not. There would be no other reason as a lvl 90 SAM to be useing a nana sword and a lvl 90 sam using a nana sword would definitely get more out of higher based GK (could prove this in terms of DoT, cause like you said SAM is a DD, but i dont think its necessary to provide the math of a base dmg 77 GK over the current 114+ GKs as it seems pretty much common sense). But let me throw this out there if you are gonna merit Ikishoten you don't think it makes sense to merit zanshin in group 1 along with it? to me seems they would go hand in hand, but to each his own.



your claiming since its better for you then it should be better for me is what your doing cause your using my merits in your claim. Hence telling me that your merits will suit my needs for where, when, how i use my SAM when i'm on it. I told you i had ikishoten merits and they werent worth it for me as my accuracy was not an issue to where i was even getting enough zanshin attacks to even get anything wortwhile from Ikishoten, so i changed them to something that was more useful and worthwhile for me.

Wut. I'm talking about Zanshin, yes... but I never said to merit Zanshin Activation Rate. Why would you need to merit Zanshin Activation Rate if you're using a Nana? It's 100%.. you can't get 105%. And what I'm saying is that you'd probably be doing more DoT going Overwhelm/Ikishoten instead of your build. Not everyone runs with a low-man Aby crew. Sam is a DD. I'm just trying to explain to you that in any DD situation, SAM would be better off going my way than your way, at least imo. They don't need a Nana, they could use a Masamune and still be doing more DoT than someone who had your merit build with the same exact Masamune. As a DD job, for the most part, we can assume I'm discussing how to optimize your damage output. I'm not talking about "I NEED STUNS FOR SITUATIONAL USE." If you were picked up for a party to straight up DD something you wouldn't be doing as well as a Samurai with Ikishoten. IMO.

Actually, the best bet would probably be to make sure you always have 20 merits stored so you can ask a party that just picked you up if you should change your merits to STUN GUN SAM, aka: fully merited Blade Bash. Kidding, but seriously...

The genius thing about Zanshin is that it's a 45% proc rate even without anything buffing it. You'd do better DoT with a fucking Masamune if you had Ikishoten merited, it has nothing to do with "Zanshin gear" or whatever you're trying to claim that I said. People are claiming Zanshin is useless because they stack ACC gear. Yeah... it's going to be useless if you're hitting all the time. Take off some of that ACC+ gear and you'll see it proc more often... and you'll occasionaly get more than double TP of a normal hit, which would allow you to WS faster, which would increase your DoT over someone who didn't have it. If you're concerned about landing your WSs with less ACC+ gear on (which you shouldn't be because WSs have a big ACC modifier) then go ahead and gear swap some of that ACC+ shit in. It doesn't mater what Great Katana you're using, Ikishoten will increase your DoT compared to Blade Bash and that Share-Bear one. That's why Samurai's have Zanshin, so we can put STR rings on instead of ACC rings and still come out ok, Ikishoten just lets us come out better than OK because you're getting more than double the TP of a normal hit. Please, think before you make assumptions. I never said anything about "Zanshin gear" and I never once mentioned the Nana GK after my first post.

The OP wanted to know wtf was SE thinking when they made Zanshin. I answered.