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    Kuwagami's Avatar
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    Kuwagami Tarynke
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    Cerberus
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    Red Mage Lv 78
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    Ninja has uber dominance on solo, right. Or rather, Mr.Anybody can output way better damage than they could ever do with the other dps classes without even having to work hard for it. I will give you that.

    Except :

    1) Ninja have horrible AoE possibilities. One useless AoE skill (way more efficient to burn each target solo if there are less than 3 and more than 5 in my experience), katon which is useless in end game (unless maybe if kassatsu affects it) and Doton which is actually the only real option for AoE. Even DRG have better AoE possibilities than that.
    Being the "king of common gameplay solo target" has a cost

    2) Ninja seems to have very little progression margin in damage output. The gameplay is simple, 2 DoTs, 2 switchable buffs with one you don't really want 90% of the time due to needing silence or not wanting to random stun targets when you need not to, and because mug is useless as it is. Add to that a debuff which will never be applied if there is a WAR OT, and 2 sneak attacks with one only having a real use. Anyone can do it. Even the ninjutsu rotation is pretty simple (huton > suiton > doton/raiton and add a "kassatsu - raiton/katon" when up).


    It's not because the job is OP that the masses jumped on it. It's because the job itself is overall easier to use to a good level. Doesn't mean the average Joe will ever be able to go further. Doesn't mean that the other melee classes are useless. Doesn't even mean they were useless before...
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    Atreides's Avatar
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    Ikohyu Kaito
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    Balmung
    Main Class
    Marauder Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Kuwagami View Post
    It's not because the job is OP that the masses jumped on it. It's because the job itself is overall easier to use to a good level. Doesn't mean the average Joe will ever be able to go further. Doesn't mean that the other melee classes are useless. Doesn't even mean they were useless before...
    Until they find themselves in endgame content and quit ninja because it's actually harder to play well than it looks on paper, one screwup and you get punishes really hard for it.
    The masses play ninja because it's cool I mean they are ninjas.
    I was actually looking forward for THF but Ninja is close enough I guess.
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