A question about the Ninja trait "Fleet of Foot" during PvP

Hello!

The ninja trait, Fleet of Foot, grants the following:

Increases movement speed. Effect nullified if suffering from wasp or viper venom in a PvP area.

Of course, one would assume at first this means that your movement speed is reduced if you're currently using wasp/venom on your weapon. But the way it is worded, with "suffering", could mean that the speed is reduced if you're hit by another ninja. In which case there is no way to tell if you're "suffering from warp or viper venom" so that doesn't leave a debuff

It's probably poorly translated and simply means Fleet Footed's effect is nullified if you activate either one of your poisons in PvP areas.

Poor word choice. You lose the increased movement speed if you have any of the venom stances activated as a NIN.

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Originally Posted by Nucion

Poor word choice. You lose the increased movement speed if you have any of the venom stances activated as a NIN.

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Makes sense to me.

Is the increased speed more useful than the buff from the poison?

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Originally Posted by Rhode

Makes sense to me.

Is the increased speed more useful than the buff from the poison?

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Only in a few scenarios, it is better to turn off your venom in favour of the increased movement speed (non-sprinting).
You can turn it off when you're trying to escape when sprint is unavailable, but chances are your pursuers will be sprinting after you. Or if you're trying to catch up to someone and both your sprints are down. Unfortunately, the bonus speed doesn't stack with sprint, but, on the other hand, it is an oGCD.

If you're amazing at micromanaging, you should play around with it.

Im a MNK and use Fists of Wind (movement speed boost) constantly. It helps when im chasing people down, when im running from people. It helps to be just a little bit faster than just about everybody

I...had no idea that the speed buff was disabled when my poisons were on. XD

You learn something new every day.

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Originally Posted by Vandril

I...had no idea that the speed buff was disabled when my poisons were on. XD

You learn something new every day.

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.... Pvping here... I even used ninja sometimes in secure and...... WHEN THE hell did they implement that?! I was still thinking that ninjas had awesome advantage because the constant speed buff.... Just waoh that they tuned it down.

Definitely, I second that, you learn something new every day.

This trait plus stealth makes me despise this melee job and this is coming from a guy that pretty much plays melee (and the occassional heal when needed) class exclusively in pvp. All Ninjas are good for is running away >.> Probably my third favorite job to kill (behind summoner and black mage) on my dragoon because of how cowardly the job plays considering its a melee.

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Originally Posted by l---------------l

.... Pvping here... I even used ninja sometimes in secure and...... WHEN THE hell did they implement that?! I was still thinking that ninjas had awesome advantage because the constant speed buff.... Just waoh that they tuned it down.

Definitely, I second that, you learn something new every day.

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That's exactly how I felt upon stumbling into this thread. XD