User blog comment:Skeith9/Heroic Spirits Speculation/@comment-24754018-20140730213737/@comment-1458758-20140731022237

Just martial arts? By that merit isn't Nine Lives just a bunch of attacks? I understand that Li Shuwen doesn't have a rank in NP, but unlike Tsubame Gaishi, No Second Strike and the Tiger one are counted as his phantasms, even if they're just a martial arts forms. No Second Strike in particular is a title solely attributed to Li Shuwen and if something like Rule Breaker can slip by as a Phantasm, I really don't get why they aren't counted.

As for the difficulty again, I imagine this is a situation that will come down to a matter of opinion. I just really don't think it's that much more dificult to come up with a phantasm for Assassins as it would be any other class.