Combat Gameplay - Ninja

[Shadow_Sama]

I wonder what would be better for the Ninja in terms of a Novus weapon. Skillspeed + Determination or Critical Hit + Determination...

[Zyrusticae]

Wouldn't be the first time, you get Impulse Drive long before it's ever even remotely practical to use in combat for DRG.

For the record, as long as the target is stationary and you don't have Full Thrust, which is the third attack in the standard chain (which you don't get until level 26(!)), Impulse Drive remains the highest DPS move available to lancers in group PvE. After that, it then becomes useless until you get Disembowel at level 38.

[abzoluut]

Looks a lot flashier than any other class

They will make "adjustments" to all jobs when 3.0 comes. My guess is they will throw in some flashyness for all jobs too. If not, they again have poor vision (just like when they did not see how hunts would be a mess) since people would want to play the new tank/healer/dps jobs only.

[Noshpan]

Looks interesting, Ninja was the 1st and only melee job i Actually liked in 11, it's no surprise i'd be interested in this one.

But givin this is the only new job coming, i am quite looking forward to the massive amount of ninjas that will be leveling...

I've been saving leveling up Gladiator, Marauder and White Mage just for this day. People will be learning the new class (Rogue/Ninja). I'll be learning to play tank/healer. It'll be glorious!

[Radacci]

It was announced in a interview that 2.3 is the Mid-point of 2.X content so...

2.0 (release) -> 2.1 -> 2.2 -> 2.3 (midpoint) -> 2.4 -> 2.5 -> 3.0 (1st expansion)

and not to mention Yoshi-P said 1st expansion is originally planned to be released within 2 years since 2.0 release which we are getting very close to that time point.

eh, we just made it to the 1yr mark there's still 1 year to the 2yr mark..that's not very close ^^
also...they postponed content, and patches, so just cause they planned to release expansion within 2 years, doesn't mean they'll make the deadline.
but from the looks of it, it will be around spring next year, i guess.

[SDaemon]

eh, we just made it to the 1yr mark there's still 1 year to the 2yr mark..that's not very close ^^
also...they postponed content, and patches, so just cause they planned to release expansion within 2 years, doesn't mean they'll make the deadline.
but from the looks of it, it will be around spring next year, i guess.

2.4 is likely to be end of Oct to early Nov. 2.5 would be early Spring. The expansion won't be till next summer at the earliest.

[EdwinLi]

eh, we just made it to the 1yr mark there's still 1 year to the 2yr mark..that's not very close ^^
also...they postponed content, and patches, so just cause they planned to release expansion within 2 years, doesn't mean they'll make the deadline.
but from the looks of it, it will be around spring next year, i guess.

As said it is planned to be within 2 years since 2.0 release and it is still within the 2 years of 2.0 release.

[Recaldy]

Way more movement than there needs to be. Can tell they put more effort into ninja than the other classes that barely moves at all.

[Nahara]

This looks super, super cool. thanks for sharing!

[Aaramis]

So much jumping around. I foresee a lot of lolNIN flames when all the newborn NIN discover the woes of DRGs for the past year - that the game doesn't update your position to avoid AoEs until you land, meaning you're going to get hit a LOT by AoEs until you learn it's faster to run out of them than to jump and wait a half-second for the ping update.

That said, the chains look very fluid and flashy. Definitely tempting to try out