The Ninja Superthread

[Allyrion]

Go write that in the DPS corner of shame :v!!!

I raise that one and give you "I Shadewalked the healer", and not as a troll.
To be fair though, that wasn't as damning because I realized right away my mouseover missed and just didn't attack for a few seconds.

[treuhavik]

Why isn't the initial post being updated? Or if the poster is no longer around, why hasn't a new superthread been started for the expansion?

Apologies to all my fellow Ninjas out there. I've been away for a while and in coming back I've found myself with less time than I previously had. Fret not, though, Leggerless, aka LordTiberiusRex, the author of Ninja: Heaven-Sword, will be creating a new thread to keep you all better informed.

In the meantime, I've band-aided the OP with a few updates and quotes straight out of the aforementioned guide. I hope it's enough to hold you all over until the new thread is ready.

[LordTiberiusRex]

Public announcement? I too live dangerously.

I'm going to pull something like a Dervy with Ninja, folks.

[Aiurily]

i get pretty sad when i smoke screen the tank and shadewalker my healer friend, but then they live anyway

[Kenji1134]

Public announcement? I too live dangerously.

I'm going to pull something like a Dervy with Ninja, folks.

Hmm, seems the expansion is finally bring the theorycrafting math geeks out of the woodwork. Nice to see folks rising to the optimization challenge. =)

[Arkenne]

Smoke Bomb the Tank and Shadewalker the Healer

You are one storm of a Ninja.

[Aiurily]

im gonna be hokage

[Fuma]

Questions for NINs on floor 2 of Alexander. I was doing it last night and felt my DPS numbers kinda low (about 700 across all attempts) and feel that I should maybe be pulling more than that even if I'm just i170. Are other NINs AoEing for better numbers? I'm mostly sticking to single targeting high priority targets. Any advice would be appreciated.

[CodeCass]

So I'm still leveling my NIN up through HW currently, and I was curious on something. I've never bothered getting Blood for Blood yet. I've played my NIN for a few months now after getting to 50 in a couple weeks. I just never bothered leveling Lancer to get the skill. I've played through all the older content, and all of the end game except for Coil (farmed CT, ST, WoD, and all EX Primals more times than I'd like to count). To date, my lack of Blood for Blood has never caused me any problems and no one has ever remarked upon it. My question is, now in HW, how absolutely necessary is it that I get the skill? Am I going to be a huge hindrance in the future if I don't get it?

[AlphaDragoon]

So I'm still leveling my NIN up through HW currently, and I was curious on something. I've never bothered getting Blood for Blood yet. I've played my NIN for a few months now after getting to 50 in a couple weeks. I just never bothered leveling Lancer to get the skill. I've played through all the older content, and all of the end game except for Coil (farmed CT, ST, WoD, and all EX Primals more times than I'd like to count). To date, my lack of Blood for Blood has never caused me any problems and no one has ever remarked upon it. My question is, now in HW, how absolutely necessary is it that I get the skill? Am I going to be a huge hindrance in the future if I don't get it?

Short answer is that yeah, you'll never be able to hit the numbers you're actually supposed to without Blood for Blood. I know it sucks to have to level a class you have no interest in playing because I felt the same way. XD