Merits

Currenty have:
5/5 STP
5/5 Mediate

1/5 BB
4/5 Ikishoten
5/5 Overwhelm

Wondering if I should change it to:
5/5STP
5/5 Zanshin Attack Rate

1/5 BB
5/5 Ikishoten
4/5 Overwhelm

Masa SAM for what it's worth...

I think most sam have the first atm, or at least most with a clue. Really I don't think adding 2.5 DA rate with how much DA gear exists really is worth it. Also just the 5 ikishoten merit results in TP overflow from WS > and it procing but I could be wrong on that.

Keep your G2s as they are. Zanshin v Meditate is pretty even if you're engaged fulltime and using Meditate as close to recast as possible, but Meditate merits lose ground if you're not taking full advantage of that recast reduction and the TP gained.

I use

5/5 STP
3/5 Zanshin
2/5 Med

Aiming for 16% Zanhasso rate. Base 50, AF3+2body 10, earring 2-3 = 62-63%

I have +3 which is 65-66% Zanshin which puts me on the safe side if any of the above rates are wrong. (never tested myself)



5/5 OW
4/5 Iki
1/5 BB

I'd much rather have 5/5 Iki but BB is needed for VW. TP overflow is a good thing on SAM since all the major WSs scale with TP.

I didn't know that. I will merit this later and be:

5/5 Store TP
5/5 Meditate

5/5 Overwhelm
4/5 Ikishoten
1/5 Blade Bash.

You only need 4/5 Ikishoten with Masamune, also Zanshin+5% is only 1.25% Hassanshin. They're my feelings.
I have been considering trying to find 10 StoreTP in gear so I can unmerit sTP and put it into Zanshin+ but I don't think it's possible without losing Haste. ; ;

Yeah you need 5/5 stp for all the 5hits out there. Also if you don't put any merits into zanshin you are probably at 62% zanshin. (trait,body,earring) Thats why I recommend atleast 2 in Zanshin rate to bump you up to 16% zanhasso. (64% total) Most people don't ride their med timer either so its not a big loss to take a couple out of med timer.

Is it actually calculated as a percentage though? I'm more inclined to believe it's a binary number, i.e. fractions of 256, 512 or 1024, like Haste.

Hitrate and critrate are known to only work in whole % increments, I wouldn't be surprised if Zanshin does too.