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

[Delorean]

Yeah....because +20% more dmg from tank is life saver.

If applying Storm's Eye was a 20% damage increase, you'd have to be mental not to use it.

Honestly any war that's not keeping SE near 100% of the time should prob not be playing war

I think there are more essential skills to master in the role of playing a Warrior than managing to squeeze out an extra 5% damage in a role that doesn't even specialize in damage.

[Skull_Angel]

I think there are more essential skills to master in the role of playing a Warrior than managing to squeeze out an extra 5% damage in a role that doesn't even specialize in damage.

It should equate to an 11% increase in damage when up.

Personally, I'm with the guys that push for keeping it up as much as possible; War only brings one utility with it outside of it's tanking abilities, and that's increasing it's damage. When you can execute your main priorities without issue you should be working on utilizing your job's other beneficial traits/actions, warrior's happens to be increasing it's ability to deal damage. Do you sacrifice your main priorities to do so? No, but you should squeeze it in whenever you are realistically able to. You don't have to push the envelope of what your class/job is capable of, but you're doing a disservice to yourself and your party members.

[GreyJorildyn]

You'd be surprised... as a WAR who is generally overgeared for most content I run outside of coil (dungeons, primals, etc.) I don't even bother with Storm's Path. My rotation is pretty much flat SE > BB x2 constantly. I open with Berserk on the SE combo and go with into our bread and butter. It keeps my damage up and in the future will benefit the ninjas I party with (presumably if their weapons will be slashing based). I spent almost all my time in full DPS gear (ilevel 102 atm) so it helps even more.

A 10% reduction of a mob's slashing resistance results in about an 11.5% increase in damage based on some math I saw back a few months ago. But even if it was as low as 5% damage, it still all adds up.

[Alistaire]

You'll also see 6 ninjas jump on Titan's head and stab him like the wanderer in Shadow of the Colossus.

Incoming animation lock deaths like drg gets when jumping. Still.

[RickmanUK]

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.

Honestly IF rogues/Ninja's get a Debuff for Slashing... It'll Likly be Prior too 50, So Will it help with Lower Level Dungeons? Yes. Will it Stack with the Warrior one? Possibly, Will it be Stronger then the Warrior one? Again Possibly.
I can Imagine that IF a Ninja is in a Party with a Warrior.. the Warrior will likly not NEED too do Storm's Eye. Then Again... We don't know yet. I Can Imagine Ninja's getting a Debuff for Slashing/Their own Damage type though, Or they might just get one that Effects All Damage Types.. Possibly a Poison effect.

[aerolol]

I use Storm's Eye and Storm's Path like all the time (and have no aggro issues) so I'm quite sure Ninjas would love me

[Huntington]

Why would a WAR never use Storm's Eye anyways? It annoys me when I have a WAR as OT and they only keep up one of the Storm attacks or Fracture. I try to always as the OT keep up all three of those so the MT can, if they are a WAR, use their highest damage combo and enmity combo back to back while getting Maim now and then. It makes their job easier and if they do it for you it works better for everyone.

[subteraneanbird]

Fracture is garbage though so please don't demand WARs to keep it up.

[Huntington]

Fracture is garbage though so please don't demand WARs to keep it up.

This is news to me.

[Alistaire]

Fracture is garbage though so please don't demand WARs to keep it up.

Fracture is garbage for other jobs, that's what you've heard and are regurgitating. 300 potency for WAR, it'd be on par with Inner Beast if it ignored the damage penalty like IB does.