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    Player Juri_Licious's Avatar
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    What is the best THF Subjob?

    Well, I feel kinda weak at the moment and DNC is my subjob.
    But that might be because i'm THF. Anyways, what's the best subjob for THF?
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    Player Karbuncle's Avatar
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    NIN for almost all situations.
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    Player Atomic_Skull's Avatar
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    What is the best THF Subjob?
    Even if THF had native DW5 it would still be Ninja
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    Player thefinalrune's Avatar
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    Nothing improves on near perfect evasion like not getting hit at all. I dreaded leveling NIN at first, but after a few weeks of using it I was hooked. And now, three years later my THF feels naked without /NIN.
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    Player Arcon's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Atomic_Skull View Post
    Even if THF had native DW5 it would still be Ninja
    Not entirely true. Right now /NIN is the best for damage as well as survival (in most situations, depending on the mob /DNC can do better). If THF had native DW3 or higher, /WAR would be the best choice for highest damage output. There's plenty of situations where THF doesn't have to rely on shadows, especially with a healer by your side.

    Edit: To answer the OP's question, /NIN is the best all around support job for THF these days. /DNC has its uses (although personally I prefer Bloody Bolts + /NIN personally), but for most mobs /NIN will still beat it for survival, especially inside Abyssea. The same holds true if you have any kind of healer or support with you.
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    Player Karbuncle's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by thefinalrune View Post
    Nothing improves on near perfect evasion like not getting hit at all. I dreaded leveling NIN at first, but after a few weeks of using it I was hooked. And now, three years later my THF feels naked without /NIN.
    I remember a day where /NIN was the only Sub job for thf :P, WAR pre-20, and /DNC Never existed XD. Hell there was occasionally subbing /SAM for sky gods. (which i didn't have leveled until it went out of style).
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    Player Kingofgeeks's Avatar
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    i'd agree, Bloody Bolts make up for the lack of /dnc healing. For low level mobs i'd use DNC tho
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    Player Khajit's Avatar
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    /dnc is for being a lazy bum.
    You can just spam bloody bolts and not use utsu instead if you really "needed" the healing but didn't feel like casting.
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    Player LeaderofAtlantis's Avatar
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    Initially I avoided /NIN like the plague because... well mostly because I was lazy. This was before DNC was even an option (about 5 years before). So I took THF/WAR all the way to 75. As I typically had a reputation of being a very helpful person (still try to uphold that, but some rude people make it hard sometimes), no one every faulted me too much for it. Eventually though, after getting hit by magic that /NIN THFs would just absorb with shadows, I decided to just suck it up and level up /NIN and it has helped me solo infinitely more than I ever could with /WAR.

    As for /DNC, my response to my friends who tell me to get it for THF - what's easier, recovering the HP lost when you get hit by a spell that does 1k+ dmg, or having a shadow prevent you from ever taking that dmg at all?
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    I keep both /nin and /dnc available. As always, there is never a 100% answer to a question, it is situational use. I use /nin when in party probably 85% of the time, using /dnc when we face a shortage of healing or massive AoE spam only. I reverse that solo, because with /dnc the only downtime I have is travel or death, survival is about the same. Also, if solo I'm usually farming for $, so I'm fighting stuff lower-level and I'd rather not be blowing cash. In Abyssea my nod is to /nin as my regular aby group doesn't have a nin main (the one we have is more valuable as war or rdm main) so I can at least work most of the grellow !! ninja procs.

    To those that say it's always /nin, why? As I mentioned the AoE issue; if shadows are completely stripped the moment you put them up why bother? Supporting a friends shehei shop perhaps? Only reason I can see... The EVA boost is identical as near as I can tell between the two jobs and the other /nin spells are resisted so much (or interrupted) that I don't see much point. Debuffs from /dnc are never resisted, you just need to be able to hit your target. And with the right weapons the difference in DW tiers is negligible. And you can silence a /dnc all day without it bothering them, the only problem being you NPC may waste a silena if you have it out.
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    Last edited by Glamdring; 04-16-2011 at 01:42 AM. Reason: missed a sentence

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