RIP Ninja

[Songi]

They're definitely being extremely lazy with how they're attempting to keep Ninja up to date with the other melee. That's exactly why I'm upset with the expansion and while I look forward to playing the actual content, I don't look forward to playing it as a Ninja at all. To that end, we're going to see a lot more Monks at endgame and a lot less Ninjas.

[Yuri_Hyuga]

Looks like I'll be putting away my knives... this' depressing.

The niche I loved playing NIN for is going away, what a disappointing way to handle making the Job a little more challenging.

[Viridiana]

Looks like I'll have less competition for NIN gear. Thanks for giving up, guys! >_>

[SDaemon]

Looks like I'll be putting away my knives... this' depressing.

The niche I loved playing NIN for is going away, what a disappointing way to handle making the Job a little more challenging.

Sorry

I'll still be enjoying NIN

[Yuri_Hyuga]

Sorry

I'll still be enjoying NIN

Happy for you, enjoy it! I just can't any longer.

I left MNK for lack of positionals with NIN, loved it.

Now I see no point, may as well just be a MNK again.

Won't have to deal with Mudra Lag.

[Korbash]

One reason I'm against positionals for the ninja, is because I'm sick and disabled and with the ninja I can play a melee job that I like - always been fond of rogue/thief/burglar/assassin class in other games and MMOs, whatever name it gets - is fun and with not much positional required.

Those who like to have positional on their skills already have the monk job to play, dragoon has some positional skills as well so they get that too, and if ninja get positional skills as well, that would leave no job, no alternative, to play for those who don't want to - or cannot or have big issues with - play a job with positional skills. And I've seen in this thread and other threads that there are people who have issues playing a melee job with lots of positional skills like the monk so they chose the ninja to play, others have chosen the job for the pleasure to not have to deal with positional skills for once, while they have to do so for the other jobs they play.

I'm very wary about those unneeded changes coming in 3.0, those changes are homogenizing the job into the other two, especially the monk. The ninja won't be a ninja anymore. I'm really not happy about this.

I also think that the ninja should not get flashy skills, a ninja is not supposed to get noticed, it's supposed to be stealthy and stab targets quickly and deadly and the targets see it too late to react.

[juniglee]

Happy for you, enjoy it! I just can't any longer.

I left MNK for lack of positionals with NIN, loved it.

Now I see no point, may as well just be a MNK again.

Won't have to deal with Mudra Lag.

Maybe it's a hidden message from SE: "Hey NIN guys, there's this cool class we'd like you to take a look at, it's called Dragoon!" XD

[Dualblade]

I also think that the ninja should not get flashy skills, a ninja is not supposed to get noticed, it's supposed to be stealthy and stab targets quickly and deadly and the targets see it too late to react.

-Looks at this. Turns attention to IV and watches as Edge uses different AoE Ninjutsu that are for sure flashy. Looks at VII with Yuffie also having some pretty flashy attacks.- Yeah, flashy really isn't ninja's thing...

[Duuude007]

idk about you, but I'm hella jazzed about the hate transference skill ninja is getting. Tanks love that shit.

[silentwindfr]

idk about you, but I'm hella jazzed about the hate transference skill ninja is getting. Tanks love that shit.

exept good tank don't need it.... find me one time where it was needed previously and was missing?
it's a situational tool only usefull for bad tank or undergear one.

other get new buff, new usefull skill and we did get a situational skill and.... positional... seriously?

i'm the only one disappointed by the skill of the ninja announced?
even the refresh of huton is a skill that normally will have more utility if we had get more ninjutsu to use.... but that not the case! it's like they did decide randomly what to add.... without even think at the synergy or any mechanic, it was just, we must give to the ninja new stuff.

indeed the skill that refresh huton will allows us to grabe more dps, but do it will change our gameplay? depending of the extension of the duration is not even sure to be that much usefull, depending of how we must use this skill, it's possible fit it into our cycle we be more troubling than simply recast huton...

Kage-watari, the skill of aggros is too situational, we will barely use it... for me this skill don't deserve to be added with expansion, but with patch !

the only skill that are not underwhelming is the new 3 stage attack... all the rest are well... a joke?

even the skill or passive that must increase our weaponskill.... a skill of ninja increasing our weapon and not our ninjutsu... do i need to say more....

all this stuff is avoiding ninjutsu when we are ninja and it's our main tool... seriously? how is possible to miss that much what a job is about.