I really hate when people say its "free" damage because that can apply to anything but aside that.
You need at least 4 or 5 stacks of meditate to make it worth it.
1 stack is a pathetic 50 pot
2 Stack is 100, lower than your combo starter
3 stack is 200, weaker than seigan which I already stated that does almost next to nothing to really bump your dps up that much.
now the 4th stack is where it gets useful, THAT's a free shinten...rather, the old potency of it.
But getting a 4th stack is just as hard as getting a 5th stack due to server ticks.
And again you're looking at it from a pretty plan view.
You get that weak 200 potency every 60secs, a minute.
and I'm not talking about the meditation skill itself so the point about getting a shinten out it not needed as I'm talking about shoha.
Also getting a 3 stack on a boss in a dgn is not going gain you much.
You're looking at potency at face value, you have to see what shoha does at the lower stack over the course of a fight.
With this being fight dependent it'll be less frequent that even seigan.
I'll use my os10.
I got 7 seigan which was 200 at the time, the same pot as 3 stack shoha.
My overall dps at that fight was 71191.1k and my seigan gave 37.8k, if I were to take away that 37.8k it would be 7081.3. Not too bad right? shoha won't be that bad then right?
Wrong, realistically; you would NEVER get that many meditates to go up to 3 stacks everytime or even get 7 meditates.
So Since I'm bad at math I'll use one of my os9 because I got two seigans in there and it gave me a wopping 11.3k out of a 8.125.5 dps overall and you know how many meditates you can even get in os9? One.
That fight has too much uptime, with fights that much uptime. Shoha is a dead skill.
Still think the way shoha works is a good skill? or "rewarding"?
((if you think its underwhelming why are you defending it? seriously...))