Ninja Cross Classes - Who gets them? Who do they get?

While I've little doubt I'll level the class to 50, it's unlikely I'll main it. However it will be interesting to see what cross class abilities it brings to other jobs and which jobs it'll benefit from.

If I had to pick, borrow from Monk and Archer, and give to Monk and Warrior.

I'd like for it to have Parry/Eva type move that's more functional current options for warrior... like... A Shadows sorta move that promises to parry the next 3 moves, or something like that. Not game breaking, but would be true to the FFXI Ninja.

Then perhaps a move that Paralyzes enemy thats off global cooldown that does a flat damage that's only impressive due that to the fact that it doesn't interfered with combos.

Anyhoo, that'd be my wish.

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Originally Posted by Steady

While I've little doubt I'll level the class to 50, it's unlikely I'll main it. However it will be interesting to see what cross class abilities it brings to other jobs and which jobs it'll benefit from.

If I had to pick, borrow from Monk and Archer, and give to Monk and Warrior.

I'd like for it to have Parry/Eva type move that's more functional current options for warrior... like... A Shadows sorta move that promises to parry the next 3 moves, or something like that. Not game breaking, but would be true to the FFXI Ninja.

Then perhaps a move that Paralyzes enemy thats off global cooldown that does a flat damage that's only impressive due that to the fact that it doesn't interfered with combos.

Anyhoo, that'd be my wish.

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Don't see why Ninja would have a parry based ability. Evasion perhaps, but parry would be a wasted stat for ninja to have an ability based on.

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Originally Posted by SDaemon

Don't see why Ninja would have a parry based ability. Evasion perhaps, but parry would be a wasted stat for ninja to have an ability based on.

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Well Monk has Eva, Dragoon has Parry and Bard has Enmity Reduction... it will have something defensive.

I'ma guess Ninja will get Archer and Lancer as cross classes, especially if they don't have any native abilities to boost their dmg dealt.

Considering all we know about rogue is that it's a DD class and that it 'throws knives' in an area like Blizzard II, jumps around and Ninja has combination actions... it's hard to tell what it will have. Oh, and Stealth which isn't going to be cross-class. I'd warrant a guess that Ninja will have lancer as a cross-class for Invigorate given that pretty much every melee DD has lancer for Invigorate.

The only problem I see with Lancer being a cross-class skill is Invigorate in and of itself. If the developmental trait set for Rogue is to be believed from patch 2.28, they will gain an innate trait to regenerate TP faster than normal at level 36. Of course we don't know how Ninja will work and they might benefit from having Invigorate due to much higher TP usage, but it still begs the question.

They're melee DPS, so they'll almost definitely get Blood for Blood. Maybe they'll get lucky and get Raging Strikes instead.

On a more selfish note, I hope WAR gets something from them. It's doubtful, but one can dream.

I doubt rogue will give anything to Warrior given Warrior already has it's cross-class classes. Adding more would mean every Job would need to get another cross-class class and there's been no mention of anything like that happening.

Some of their skills may not even be TP based, could be MP based since some of what they do could be considered magical.

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Originally Posted by Gilraen

I doubt rogue will give anything to Warrior given Warrior already has it's cross-class classes. Adding more would mean every Job would need to get another cross-class class and there's been no mention of anything like that happening.

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So.. it'll just wait for the new classes to borrow from it? They may choose to revamp other cross classes... which could be interesting. I'd not mind a shake up.