Ra'Dha Scarscute

[Darkdoom]

^this, You can parry/Guard/shield Tp Moves

And you're engaged while soloing Scarscute why? In this case, it's a non-issue.

[Thorny]

tp moves are guaranteed to take shadows if you have them

Reading comprehension is good for you. You cannot parry or evade a TP move while you have shadows up(though for example, a 4 hit tp move could take 3 shadows then have last hit parried.. but if you had 4 shadows it'd always take all 4), go test it on level 10 mobs.

You can parry or evade TP moves while shadows are down or if the move is more hits than you have shadows remaining.

[Greatguardian]

Aha, I actually hadn't noticed that. I was only commenting in general anyways, about avoiding not canceling Ni due to high Acc. Things like Roc, Sim, I still cancel Ni anyways to be safe.

[Drex]

Could also just be habit (or spellcast), I cancel Ni without even thinking when I'm casting ichi nowadays no matter what I'm doing

Did him canceling Ni really bother people enough to warrant a half page discussion on it, with a parrying/shield derail for good measure?

[Greatguardian]

Considering the entire OP was barely worthy of the Randomer Question thread and was solved in the first 2 posts, just about everything that could be posted here is a derail.

[rog]

Mob's ws will not miss, and cannot be parried/blocked/guarded/etc, if you have shadows up. Of course if you have 2 shadows up, you can still block/evade/parry/etc the third hit, since you won't have any shadows up for it.

While mostly true, I believe I've seen him do a melee attack between head butts.

No you haven't. It just attacks at completely random intervals (something like 1.5~5 secs or so).

And you're engaged while soloing Scarscute why? In this case, it's a non-issue.

Ceremonial dagger damage?

Things like Roc, Sim, I still cancel Ni anyways to be safe.

That's completely different. They will always miss at least 5% of attacks, on top of a minimum 5% parry rate. Scarscute on the other hand has 100% hit rate, with 0% parry rate. The only thing you accomplish by canceling utsu2 is adding a risk of getting hit between when you cancel it, and when you finish casting.