Why Stormblood killed ninja for me

[LaylaTsarra]

Sam was my first 70, rdm was my 2nd. Left my healer behind to raise them both lol.

I leveled Astrologian on 2 of my alts through Stormblood and have another who is a whm that just reached endgame. I've since leveled dps on my two astro alts given i do not find the new mega pull meta to be much fun. RDM is a lot more rewarding and certainly a lot less stressful for me at least. Haven't decided yet what I'll do with my WHM.

[NintenPyjak64]

No reason to play other melee when there's samurai. The most saatisfying melee to date.

To each their own.

I personally find SAM boring to play while I'm in love with monk gameplay. The huge damage numbers are nice and all... But I prefer the risk/reward Monk has with the positionals on every GCD.

[ffchampion]

No reason to play other melee when there's samurai. The most saatisfying melee to date.

Tell that to all raid groups. Nin and Drg will generally be preferred over a samurai. all a sam brings is big dps. Nothing for the rest of the raid

[FaileExperiment]

Correction. Red Mage is half melee if played right.


Why?

Unless I'm missing some meta trick elite players do, why would half your time/attacks be melee? You'd do your melee combo as part of the Flare/Holy combo or in aoe situations that aoe melee attack, but that's happening way less than half of your total attacks. Maybe 5-10% of your attacks/actions.

[ErryK]

Why?

Just felt a bit much on the fanboy side. Plus clickbait-y.

[Nuna]

Correction. Red Mage is half melee if played right.

They said that because the red mages they got only used their melee abilities. So no need for a "correction".

[Velthice]

I mean, good for you for playing what you want, but on the other hand you did switch from hands down the most wanted dps in groups and statics to one of the least wanted and most populated dps so...

[Saiah]

To each their own.

I personally find SAM boring to play while I'm in love with monk gameplay. The huge damage numbers are nice and all... But I prefer the risk/reward Monk has with the positionals on every GCD.

I used to main MNK but I dropped it since I lvlled it to 70. Im still not sure wich DPS job I want to main but so far im liking for DRG for those reasons. It has the hyperactive feel of MNK with all the OGCD's to weave between the GCD's as well as the positioning. Although that has become somewhat problematic with fang and claw going back to back now with wheeling thrust. Reducing the cooldowns on the jumps including elusive also greatly increased their mobility.

I can go on a long rant on why I dropped MNK. But it boils down to lol rng and samurai taking mah jerrrb!

[Sylvina]

The FROG killed ninja for me.

[SinisterJoints]

No reason to play other melee when there's samurai. The most saatisfying melee to date.

The most selfish melee to date. Offers nothing for the party except damage. And unless you play it well, it barely offers that. They require all the buffs from other party members to be the "stud' you are claiming. i out dps them often on my bard. My pf's dont include them.