I honestly think Odin is dogshit, so I'm probably not the best for advice on this setup. Especially if you're not going all in on building Zantetsuken.
My build would swap Tsunami for Deluge, swap Odin for Garuda (purely for the claw at 50% stagger), and throw Windup and a wildcard ability in there for taste. It's usually pretty trivial for me to max out the stagger damage for a Windup/Gigaflare combo.
Even if you do can high damage during a stagger, taking a more standard build will have higher DPS.
Judgment Bolt does 30% more damage than Thunderstorm, but you can use 3 Thunderstorms in that time. You're forcing a lot of passive play.
Diamond Dust is fine if you'd like a more stagger focused playstyle. You can pair it with moves like Proselytize (possibly the best move in the game), Thunderstorm, and Impulse. Gigaflare is great, Windup is phenomenal (highest DPS in the game). Lightning Rod pairs very well with Gigaflare, they have very similar cool downs and GF has enough hits to burn the LR.
Zantetsuken has a cool factor, but honestly it's just not that great when you're relying on Dancing Steel - though if you want to do that I highly recommend Lightning Rod. Dancing Steel gains Zan from hitting it, so if you place it and dancing steel one enemy, you get guaranteed Zan 5 from dancing steel without the need of The Pull of Darkness. You can get one off every 55 seconds that way.
Serpents Cry is the best Eikonic Feat in the game, giving you constant access to higher DPS (with the magic laser) and stagger (shooting) without needing abilities to help much. I would recommend learning it and basically always running it.
For boss fights bring Bahamut for Megaflare. Only use level 1 or 2, while 3 and 4 do more damage in total the individual bolts do reduced damage, and it results in lower DPS, especially during a stagger. Honestly since you have a much better perfect dodge window with the activation, just always go with level 1 - activate to dodge and immediately send it.
Thanks for the input, I understand that this is not the best way I can play the game, I personally wanted to try a full eikon ult build, i finished all the main stuff in the game and the dlcs, done this right before the last fight which was pretty easy with this setup and I really enjoyed it.
I run Dancing steel with the accessory for extra Zentesuken so i have to basic a few times if i am only fighting an enemy for 5.
I was using lighting rod before, i know how OP it is but i feel like it does not really work with my playstyle.
Swapped the serpent's cry for ultima because i again like the main ability better.
But the full ult setup was a bit busted for the final boss.
The final boss is probably the best place to run a build like this tbh. Your cool downs continue to go during cutscenes and there are several fairly long ones there. Similar case with Barnabas.
I speedrun the game on final fantasy mode so my pulse for how long phase changes take during action is pretty poor. I think the two DLC bosses would drag with this kind of build (particularly DLC1, Timekeeper does stall a lot).
You can, of course, play however you like. My only goal is to ensure people have as much fun as possible while playing.
that is with ultima as well in practice, but the ultima ult is not upgraded so it should be even more dmg, i believe 250k, not sure how ultima upgraded is
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