Patience about new job info and the conclusions to draw from it.

[Duelle]

Yeah, nothing is ever 100%, but given their track record, it is HIGHLY unlikely the new positionals on NIN will get lifted before they are even implemented. And i say 'new' because we have positional currently and adding more isn't gonna suddenly tank the job.

Considering it took a while before SE finally changed how WAR worked so that groups would let them tank content beyond HM Garuda, I'd expect it to take a while as well. And NIN's only positionals are Sneak Attack and Trick Attack, both on a 1-minute cooldown. The latter isn't a bit deal since you're already behind the mob to DPS, and the former I would consider too risky on most boss mobs due to clear catching a NIN means more work for the healers. 1-minute cooldown SA and TA are very different from the constant dancing back and forth DRG and MNK have to do.

Example: FFXI job RDM-PPL clamored for years for the physical side of that job to get some love. SE only this year finally decided to relent and give in(better sword rating, access to the ex weaponskills, less spell cycling with duration increases in enfeeb/buffs, ext).

And to pour salt on that wound, they did it during a time when the game is pretty much done. =/

[Tiggy]

As mentioned, you can glean at the direction classes are going with what they've shown. They can show me Bards shooting buses and trucks at mobs instead of arrows, but that's not going to change the fact they're trying to turn the job into a caster or marksmanship hunter.

That's a straw man to distract from the fact you guys aren't just gleaning. You're taking it way further and drawing finalized conclusions and making demands based on them. Any such assumptions about the actual gameplay are most likely to be false. That's the reality you seem to be failing to accept. Conjecture and discuss possibilities that's fine, but that is not what's happening on the forum in the last day. This goes far beyond conjecture with threads labeled "RIP Ninja" and the such.

Sorry, in over 13 years of dealing with SE MMO development quirks, that is absolutely not how it goes. You can whine and cry and w/e all you want, but until they get hard data on the jobs from actual player use, they don't change anything.

Exactly this. They will absolutely let the abilities release as intended and see how the player base responds to the actual skills. They won't change anything based on the wild conjecture based on nothing more than the word positional spoken. Their battle team has been working on these abilities for months and people seem to think the uproar over the use of one word will suddenly change that balance. That's some serious mental gymnastics going on in some peoples minds. It's less than a month before release. Nothing, I mean absolutely nothing, will change based on these poorly informed doom and gloom threads. They know what they are doing far more than a small vocal distinctly uninformed minority.

[Sapphic]

Considering it took a while before SE finally changed how WAR worked so that groups would let them tank content beyond HM Garuda, I'd expect it to take a while as well. And NIN's only positionals are Sneak Attack and Trick Attack, both on a 1-minute cooldown. The latter isn't a bit deal since you're already behind the mob to DPS, /

And how do you know that the extra positionals wont be rear only also? Or are you jumping to a conclusion based on the fact they said "positionals".

[Sapphic]

Lets not jump to conclusions based on very basic and minimal information.

That sums up every post from back to even 1.0 in regards to released information about any changes.

And it will never change.

[Viridiana]

We don't know everything about every change announced in their nuances, and neither do we know all the changes to be made in total for each class. We've seen the veritable tip of the ice burg when it comes to class changes. Lets not jump to conclusions based on very basic and minimal information.

Yep. And this is why the furthest I'm willing to go commenting on NIN is "I'm not thrilled with the prospect of positional requirements, but it remains to be seen how it'll play." And on BRD "I suspect WM will be a thing to toggle on and off (with a cast time, natch). Wonder what it will mean for BL and Barrage." Or on SCH, "Under what circumstances would I sac my fairy? Just how strong of a buff is this thing?"

Really, the only job we have near enough info on to even try to guess a rotation is BLM, because they spelled out so many abilities BLM will get. And even then I wouldn't sign my name to more than a guess.

[Amatsuhira]

You'll mostly encounter unfounded negativity and hyperbole online. It's why I don't visit these forums too often.

It's logic like Bards being able to sing/play 2 songs at once, one of which won't cost mana that keeps me coming back...
How if at all is Dragon Quest or XV detracting from this games attention?

[Spiritreaver1217]

It's logic like Bards being able to sing/play 2 songs at once, one of which won't cost mana that keeps me coming back...

In a game where you are essentially Captain Planet with better fashion sense, ppl ride giant yellow turkeys, and things like cloning, magic, and pan-sexual people who take draconian lovers can all co-exist; sometimes you have to let real world logic take a walk lol.

[kyuven]

Captain Planet with better fashion sense

This isn't true at all.
If given have a chance, some players would go full captain planet, and throw gaudy make-up on.

[Spiritreaver1217]

This isn't true at all.
If given have a chance, some players would go full captain planet, and throw gaudy make-up on.

Even the flat-top?!?! I don't buy it.

[Amatsuhira]

In a game where you are essentially Captain Planet with better fashion sense, ppl ride giant yellow turkeys, and things like cloning, magic, and pan-sexual people who take draconian lovers can all co-exist; sometimes you have to let real world logic take a walk lol.

Except Captain had to put out fire with water.