Ninja: Walk in shadow.

[Dynza]

In the recent live letter preview we can see 4 mudra. They're heavily stylized kanji by the looks of it and to the best of my ability I believe they are the following (in order of appearance): 决, 巾, 老, 赳. Respectively: "Decisive," "Width/Breadth," "old/aged," "Grand/Valiant" or thereabouts.

The Ninjutsu mudra combos shown are:
决: Giant exploding shurikan thrown.
巾+老: Bolt of lightning.
Unknown combination: Ice.
巾+巾: Fire.
Uknown combination: Earth swirl.
决+赳+巾: Tornado thing.
巾+巾+巾: Water spout.

Each mudra appears to be off the GCD. The Ninjutsu which require 3 mudra take about 3 seconds to input. Therefor it's highly likely that the bulk of the NIN's DPS will come from Rogue abilities and that they will most likely be DoT's. Essentially a melee-SMN sans pet.



Just want to point out that physical weapon skills deal damage based on Attack Potency, not STR/DEX. STR/DEX determines AP at a 1:1 ratio (in addition to parry/block rates/mitigation). Whether or not STR or DEX raises AP is determined by the weapon type. For now DEX=AP only for bows and STR=AP for every other weapon (including books/staves/wands/rods/cudgels). This is why it's so easy to make any weapon DEX or STR based, it's literally just a flip of a switch. It's mis-worded and an inaccurate over-simplification on the current tool-tip for DEX where it states it effects ranged attacks. This can be seen with all non-ARC/BRD ranged attacks scaling off of AP which is based on their weapon's stat (STR) and not based on DEX despite them being ranged attacks.

In beta abilities such as Tomahawk did in fact scale off of DEX but they did next to no damage due to their base classes gearing for STR. This is when they rectified the damage formulas for weapon skills to scale off of AP instead of the base stat. The DEX/STR tool-tips are basically just remnants that sort of work in the current model until you bring in all of the non-ARC/BRD ranged attacks.

I'm aware of how the system actually works. I simply trying to keep things simple for simplicity's sake.

As for the ninjutsu symbols. Originally I thought they were Kanji, but after closer analyzing it seemed more stylized towards Sanskrit than Chinese characters. But I couldn't really find any close approximations to the symbols used. At this point, I'm assuming they're using some pseudo-symbol combinations that are more or less resembling Eorzean/Hydalaen script. Lore would probably love to ask what each symbol means, but I get the sense we'll know when the class is released, or during the next interview around Gamescom time.

You're not even looking at the hardest part;

24 Atma
30 books (27,000 myth)
150 Alexandrite?

OOOOOOOOOOOO k.

Or Novus + Allagan/High Allagan/Dark Allagan

To be fair, if the ninja weapons were individually equipped, they would've used the same format as the paladin weapon and shield. So they wouldn't twice as much as anyone else.


I plan to do a video analysis of the moves we've seen so far very soon. Just need a little free time and I'll post ahead and you guys can comment or speculate to your hearts desire.