Ninja: "So.. about that Storm's Eye?"

[Nayto]

It's going to be a no-brainer that Rogue/Ninja is going to be slashing based damage. You could lob them with the piercing damage group but curved shortswords/ninjato is their promo weapon at the moment.

Though, right now unlike other DPS, their slash resist down debuff is relegated to a tank, whom may prioritize (despite having an amazing hate rushdown) their mitigation combo over maximizing DPS, since obviously survival is their first priority.

So... do you guys think we'll see a change in storm's eye because of this? Will we be stripped of the slash down (if ROG/NIN become part of the slash damage group) and be given something else?

After all, they did this with BRD's 'rain of death' damage down debuff and handed it to MRD/WAR. So it kinda raises a slight concern.

Don't really see why they would. Dragoon buffs both their own and a bard's damage. I can't really think of any reason keeping Storm's Eye as is would unbalance things.

That's kinda what I'm trying to get at though. Unless they have their own slash resist down that stacks with ours (which would be OPish I'd think) their extra DPS is on a role that isn't focused on damage.

There are also times where a WAR might be tanking a separate add/part like leviathan where melee can't touch. In this case, yeah he can go to that melee friendly add/part and throw down a storms eye (I do this to give better hate generation for the PLD.. but only at the start) but that's a lot of down-contact time going between the two things.