Thanks for the write up, Belial. I had a lot of the same thoughts you listed, so its nice to have someone put pen to paper on Mitsurugi's current stance in the game right now.
This is the current movelist/notes gathered from all available Demos played over the last few months.
Moves retained from Soulcalibur V:
Verticals:
BB
3B (SC6 Note: Lethal Hit on crouching opponents.)
44B (Still capable of entering MST)
66B/33B/99B,66BB/33BB/99BB
11B, 11BA, 11BA4~MST...
Held on to this stuff for quite some time, likely it is universal at this point in time to most Mitsurugi players but, I felt I should put it up here regardless.
Strongest Meterless (FC1B as combo start):
FC1B ~ W! ~ 3B ~ W! ~ FC1BB ~ 66BB : 99 dmg (This combo can get messed up depending on 3B...