Shade Shift needs to block Magic Damage too!

[Shurrikhan]

I noticed the comparison to Black Mage, and that's... a bit of a stretch of a comparison. For starters, BLM only gets two forms of mitigation* total. Manaward, our "native" mitigation and Drain, a poor excuse of self-healing. Ninja gets Shadeshift, Second Wind and Bloodbath.

Also, unlike Shadeshift, Manaward is simply a damage barrier. We don't get knockback resistance except through Surecast... and our whole rotation is built on us being on solid ground. So, Ninja is still a heck of a lot safer than BLM in terms of their rotation and their "risky" ability.

*I counted self-heals as mitigation because they mitigate impending death.

Shadeshift doesn't provide knockback resistenance either. If it 0s a physical attack, then you won't be knocked back. Manaward in turn immunizes you to any physical OR magical knockback attack it 0s.

Surecast is also available a hell of a lot more often than Arm's Length.