Dear Ninjas

[Kietsu]

For that matter, Suiton -> Back Attack Trick Attack for a total of 580 potency (400 of which gets the 20% poison bonus) and a hell of a lot more than that from the debuff.
Don't assume other Ninjas are doing it, because chances are they're not.

[Keydah]

First off, I admit to leveling my ninja through FATEs to get it to 50 (I needed something to do and our ping was a painful 400+ for a couple weeks) so I kinda jumped straight into Laby & Syrcus as soon as I was comfortable end-game. So I'm by no means an experienced ninja (like at all, I don't have much time to play it because of alex grinding and WoD gear for my SCH and whatnot). I'm a ninja noob who's wading slowly into the endgame ninja waters. xD Please (pleaaaase) correct me if any of this is lolNIN, but I'm going to share my common sense that I didn't have to look up or hear from others to figure out.

I have Huton up anytime I can (sometimes I forget...I'm not settled into NIN rotations 100% yet) and I don't touch Doton unless there's more than 4 or so mobs. I use Suiton only when trick attack is up and Raiton any other time that I don't need to refresh my Huton. I haven't used the fire AOE one in Laby/Syrcus because I'm not sure if I should be. I'm a bit scared to stun so I don't do it. I don't want to miscalculate it and stun the wrong thing, because as a SCH, I know how bad that can be for the rest of the party/raid.

For that matter, Suiton -> Back Attack Trick Attack for a total of 580 potency (400 of which gets the 20% poison bonus) and a hell of a lot more than that from the debuff.
Don't assume other Ninjas are doing it, because chances are they're not.

I do that whenever I can to bosses. It just felt like common sense, and I haven't had much time to actually play NIN either. It's just...580 potency + a debuff that makes them take more damage from other people? Of course you should be using that whenever you can (with some exceptions - I'm sure if you need to not push phases you shouldn't use it)

Also, you have a Skill alled 'Goad'. It recovers one party member's TP.

I don't know exactly how fast endgame tank TP drops but I use Goad about 3-4 minutes into a (boss) fight on the tank. I've never seen a tank ask for it so I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or right. I don't want to be waiting until they're almost out because from what I have encountered so far leveling my GLD with my boyfriend's ROG, Goad supplies even TP for one attack each global cooldown. In Halatali on one of the bosses, using Fast Blade > Savage Blade combo (Rage of Halone is above the sync level) I started with about 450 TP when I asked him for Goad and I ended with about 450 TP when it was over.