If NIN was given a change of role...!

Give NIN more support skills
At the moment NIN is the only dex job that is not a DPS/Support job

The current amount of ninjas are now fine. After people switched back to the job they like the most. Ninjas now are people who actually like this job and being entertained by playing it.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Give NIN more support skills
At the moment NIN is the only dex job that is not a DPS/Support job

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Cause Trick Attack and Goad aren't support skills at all. Nope.

All I know is that ninja was put into this game as a dps
It fufills it's role as a dps quite well.

I, and many others very much enjoy the way the job is, so let's not ruin it by making it a ...tank?

It shouldn't be a tank from the beginning. I'm not a XI player and don't know what happened to XI nin but it seems like they messed it up and made it a tank job unintentionally.

ninja is like an assassins + a spy. they shouldn't be fighting face to face like a paladin or a warrior. it doesn't make sense lore wise.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Give NIN more support skills
At the moment NIN is the only dex job that is not a DPS/Support job

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Forgive me if I'm misinterpreting the meaning of a support skill, but you have;

Stun, Silence, Decrease slashing resist, Increase damage taken, Reduce HP recovery via healing magic, Heavy, Bind, Slow. And ofc Goad.

I think that might be more than any other job?

No, no, and hell no. NIN should've never been a tank in the first place in XI.It was never even intended to in the first place, players made it a tank and it ruined the game to cater to the use of shadows. Nothing about NIN screams tank.

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Originally Posted by Natsuno

Forgive me if I'm misinterpreting the meaning of a support skill, but you have;

Stun, Silence, Decrease slashing resist, Increase damage taken, Reduce HP recovery via healing magic, Heavy, Bind, Slow. And ofc Goad.

I think that might be more than any other job?

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We don't have a heavy or a slow, which are the same thing anyway.

Our stun and silence are the same skill so you can't have both.

Unless you mean PvP, in which case we have a gap closer stun, along with a heavy. Also another silence.

Also. Dancing edge is the same as storms eye, so if you have a warrior we basically remove this ability from our rotation completely, nullifying that point.

Edit: forgot doton inflicts heavy.

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Originally Posted by Slappah

Our stun and silence are the same skill so you can't have both.

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The important part is that you bring the possibility of both of those options. If you have a WAR in your party, you can switch to Silence. If you have a PLD, you can switch to Stun. Or based on the other DPS in your group (DRG swap to silence, BRD swap to stun, etc).

That's a level of versatility that other DPS jobs do not have.

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Originally Posted by Slappah

We don't have a heavy or a slow, which are the same thing anyway.

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Doton gives a 40% heavy.
The difference between heavy and slow is, that heavy reduces movement speed and slow reduces attack speed. They are not the same thing.
For example DRGs feint gives slow but not heavy.