Death Blossom

Acquisition
Skill Trainers:
 * Masaharu (Seitung Harbor)

Usage Notes

 * As Death Blossom is a Dual Attack, the area-effect damage from this skill is applied twice. The area-effect is considered direct damage rather than an attack, so it cannot miss or be blocked. Area damage is only triggered when an attack strikes, so anything that causes your attacks against the target to miss will also negate it. Note also that you'll only do one packet of area damage if your first hit is sufficient to kill your target.
 * The area-damage also does not trigger the effects of such skills as Auspicious Parry, Riposte, Shield Bash or Deadly Riposte.
 * Combine with Moebius Strike to spam area damage in melee.
 * Combine with Mark of Pain to deal deadly area damage

Trivia

 * This skill may be a reference to the 1984 film "The Last Starfighter". Death Blossom was a secret weapon that destroyed all nearby enemies.


 * Another place this skill's name could have come from is the series ReBoot. One of the main characters in the last two seasons of ReBoot has a gun which has a "Death Blossom Mode", turning it into a spinning, deadly weapon.  This gun in ReBoot, however, is a clear reference to The Last Starfighter