Nerf Ninja

When I started playing Ninja it was a pretty good Tank. Over the years Ninja has gone through one disastrous update after another to the point that it is not a Tank, it is not even a good damage dealer. Red Mage, on the other hand, has become the ultimate hybrid White Mage/Black Mage, and with Ninja sub job and a pair of good knives, it is a damage dealing masterpiece. Would it not be a good thing if the folks at FFXI headquarters would bring Ninja back to the glory it once carried?

Not with a topic title that says "nerf Ninja."

It's less that NIN got nerfed though it's more that everything else got better, and they decided, after first deciding that shadow tanking was fine, that it was no longer fine and started making half of everything strip shadows.

By giving every NM in the game the ability to wipe shadows at will, with out giving Ninja the tools to counter those attacks, the result is the same as down grading or nerfing Ninja. Giving Ninja something like Stoneskin as a backup to its shadows would go a long way toward solving the problem.

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Originally Posted by Daddyo

By giving every NM in the game the ability to wipe shadows at will, with out giving Ninja the tools to counter those attacks, the result is the same as down grading or nerfing Ninja. Giving Ninja something like Stoneskin as a backup to its shadows would go a long way toward solving the problem.

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See the thing is, NIN was never designed to be a tank, players just figured out that they could. SE let it be for a while but I guess they decided that was too easy and trivialized too many fights. If any changes are made, they should probably focus on making it a better DD.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

See the thing is, NIN was never designed to be a tank, players just figured out that they could. SE let it be for a while but I guess they decided that was too easy and trivialized too many fights. If any changes are made, they should probably focus on making it a better DD.

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I don't remember ninja trivialising anything, but I do remember it being fun.

Like tanking Charybdis for the first time with just a bard as support, so was actually damage dealing only too.

Maybe that wasn't something they wanted to happen? But I was maybe level 80-something then, though, not 75. Maybe. Maybe I was 75 I can't remember now...

In any case, I do miss ninja being useful as a tank. It can be fun. Need to pay so much attention too.

Very unfortunate it just does not make sense in nowadayses content.