The Ninja Superthread

[Ephier]

I could be wrong, but at last check, I believe the customary opener was the following:

Huton pre-pull > SE > B4B > GS > IR > DE > Suiton > Multilate > Trick Attack > SE > Kassatsu > SF > Raiton > SE > Mug > GS > Jugulate > AE.

This allows Kassatsu>Raiton to be cast with IR & B4B still up for maximum potency.

Should swap mutilate and shadow fangs order,

Huton pre-pull > SE > B4B > GS > IR > DE > Suiton > SE* > Trick Attack > SF* > Kassatsu > Mutilate* > Raiton > SE > Mug > GS > Jugulate > AE.

That way your dots are all being affected by trick attack.

[Leonus]

Should swap mutilate and shadow fangs order,

Huton pre-pull > SE > B4B > GS > IR > DE > Suiton > SE* > Trick Attack > SF* > Kassatsu > Mutilate* > Raiton > SE > Mug > GS > Jugulate > AE.

That way your dots are all being affected by trick attack.

I did something like this today and parsed 466 and 470 w/ i110 weapon (varjas) today. When I ran something different, the highest I parsed was 455.

someone explained to me today in game that you want to try and get your dots up as often as you can when you use TA.

Something along the line of, if you have less than 15 seconds on z mutilate (which happens a lot) and you just used TA, overwrite it during the TA debuff window.

If you have at most 5 seconds between when SF and when your going to do TA, wait until you use TA to reapply SF.

Edit: what is the dps increase going from varjas base weapon damage to HA cleavers?

[treuhavik]

what is the dps increase going from varjas base weapon damage to HA cleavers?

Not sure about cleavers, but when I switched to Diamond Daggers, I jumped about 20 DPS.



EDIT: So, what seems to be working best for me (today at least) is;

Huton (~3s wait/run to target) > BfB > SE > IR > SF > Mutilate > SE > Jugulate > GS > Mug > DE > SE > GS > Suiton > AE > TA > SE > Kassatsu > SF > Raiton > Mutilate...

I'm sure it's far from optimal but I got 497 DPS in 3:18 with a 640~ inital burst. These openers with long waits feel far too unatural for me to pull off. Maybe it's just me, but I've yet to be able to time a 10-15s wait Huton with a coil boss pull.

Again, my gear: http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/OUMD