Quote Originally Posted by wish12oz View Post
what is this i dont even............

Early in the game is the only time throwing is good and when it should be used. Up to lvl 40 throwing shurikens so badly outparses every other damage dealing aspect in the game. At 40 the NIN ni spells are a bit better I believe, but its been so long I forget now, a bit later it's back to throwing til you can get haste gear. And at low lvls, the shurikens sold by NPCs are pretty cheap! And ninjas always attacked super fast, it's just gotten 10% DW (af3+2 mask, and a job trait) and 0 or 4% haste since the introduction of abyssea. (depending on if you used the lvl 50 nin ring) Which is a lot, but not as much as people seem to think.
Since abyssea, sure. How much more haste and DW can you have now, compared to for example what you could get in 2004-2005? And in addition to that, maybe didn't have both 2x march and haste spell at the same time.

Look, I'm not trying to argue that throwing is better or has been better for a very long time. Is it really so implausible that the evolution of the ninja job could have been a bit different if throwing was cheaper?

I never played nin back when it was new myself, I didn't even have the game until CoP came out. I do however know a few who were pretty pro nins, and they've told me throwing was good for "as long as you could afford it". Perhaps not in a max haste scenario, but there was (and still is, to a lesser degree) plenty of cases where you weren't at capped, or near capped haste.

So if this is completely wrong, well I guess my sources suck then.