Ninja: I have genuine questions to the Dev team

[Craftymind]

With all due respect to Yoshi-P and all the FFXIV dev. team, I have to say this:

You messed up my main job so bad, that I had to swap to a new job, when I really don't want to. Thanks, Yoshida-san!

I'm so confused that I have to ask some questions:

Did anyone on the Dev team clear the EW 6.0 content, on Ninja, and thought it was " good "?!

What were you thinking when you introduced Raiju weaponskills?! No, really, what were you thinking?! How is spamming 1 button, 6 times in a row, fun?! Not only 6 times in a row, but 6 times in a row with a CD in between each press, too!

Why give stacks of Raiju Ready buff if you want us to use it immediately anyway?! It's so illogical! Imagine if BLM's Lay Lines needed you to only spam one 2.12s cast spell inside of it, otherwise, it will disappear. Any press of any other button, even while being outside of it, and it disappears. And, you can only move out of Lay Lines 3 times before it despawns. And, the only way to re-enter it, is to dash to it. It doesn't sound fun, doesn't it?! Well, that's how both Raiju feel, except in this example, the lay lines can only be placed in melee range of your target.

And to add salt to injury, Huton is 60 sec duration, now?! Why? After all that spam-fest of 1 button, I can barely do 1 or 2 " 123 " combos before refreshing Huton and repeat Raiju-spam again, anyway... And, NO, the Huraijin weaponskill doesn't fix this! It's not like NIN is doing so much damage that it requires the introduction of another weaponskill, with low potency, that reapplies Huton! The synergies between NIN Abilities and Weaponskills is so all over the place!

You took away 1 GCD (Shadow Fang), you gave literally ZERO new oGCDs, but added 4 more GCDs (2x Raiju + Phaton Kamaitachi + Huraijin), but for some reason that meant Huton's duration had to be lowered, all because Huraijin now exists?

Why not make Raiju and Huraijin (GCDs) into abilities (oGCDs), and lower their potencies, at least? You wanted to help us recover from down time or dropping Huton? that would be a way better option.

Why not only add ONE Raiju and make it a Kassatsu enhacement of Raiton, if you really want it to be in some way related to raiton (because... lightning, I guess...)?

Why make NIN so boring to play with these Raijus that literally make me feel I'm doing a slow Active Time Maneuver each time I spam them, back to back, because I have to?

And I didn't even touch on the times that I have to go out of melee range of bosses and STAY away, with Raiju stacks that I can't use anyway, because I'll die if I dash back to the boss who's doing AoE mechanics!

I genuinely want to know the reasoning behind all of this!

[Craftymind]

NOTE: I know I already made a thread about NIN before, but I had questions that needed to be asked. Sorry for the repetition.

EDIT: Stop playing profilers, on the internet, guys... it's cringe!

2nd EDIT: Since all comments here are saying I hate devs and I'm being rude to them, or whatever, let me ask you a simple question (rhetoric question, in case that goes over your heads): If I hate the devs so much and I hate the game so much, as you guys clearly believe, then would I take the time to actually write threads and criticize the changes done to my main job, or even reply to your stupid comments?! Let me answer that for you, since you lack the intellectual capacity to answer it yourselves: NO!

You see what I wrote in that 2nd EDIT? THAT is how an angry person on the internet writes. Just because I said " with all due respect " it doesn't mean that I'm disrespecting anyone, and just because I'm asking " What were you thinking? " it doesn't mean I'm angry...

Jesus christ, I can't believe I'm lecturing kids, on the internet, about basic text comprehension! Holy shit, this whole thing is so cringe! Grow the fuck up, already!

[meowmaou]

I definitely think it would be more fun if some of these new skills were oGCDs instead, especially the Raijuu stuff.

And I didn't even touch on the times that I have to go out of melee range of bosses and STAY away, with Raiju stacks that I can't use anyway, because I'll die if I dash back to the boss who's doing AoE mechanics!

Planning the timing is part of the fun, in my opinion.

[Shurrikhan]

I definitely think it would be more fun if some of these new skills were oGCDs instead, especially the Raijuu stuff.

Planning the timing is part of the fun, in my opinion.

I have to agree. You have two charges on Ninjutsu, so you've nearly a full 40 seconds to find room for the uninterrupted Raijuu combo. If you, say, Raiton just before a "death to melee" mechanic... isn't that on you?

That said, I do find NIN overly bare atm, mostly in its 1-2-3 spam (1-2-4 only twice per averaged minute). I'd love to have seen Shadowfang returned to the rotation... and am still confused by why Aeolian Edge, essentially "Edge of the Wind God", isn't the one that extends Huton.

Why not give us back the full slew of rotationals? Give me back Dancing Edge, now as our filler, Aeolian as our twice-per-minute, Armor Crush as a 2-step damage window opener, perhaps, and Shadowfang as a two-step DoT that I could enjoy spreading on fights like Tower of Zot's final boss fight, etc. (These are obviously spitball examples.)

[Shironeko_Narunyan]

Statements that start with "with all due respect" most often lack said respect completely, and this thread delivers on that front.

The title states "a genuine question" where there was none. It's a whine thread.

You could have gotten your point across if you'd put in the effort, but you chose the easy way out. Regrettable.

[meowmaou]

If you, say, Raiton just before a "death to melee" mechanic... isn't that on you?

It's no surprise jobs end up so oversimplified. I've ALREADY seen people complaining about keeping Death's Design up on RPR being too hard for them! If not on the english forums, then on the japanese forums. Like c'mon people, it's barely been a week! At least try to learn the job before you ask for it to be made easier.

[Kolsykol]

OP do you think that the devs out of spite made these changes because they thought '' Craftymind, we hate that guy ''?
That's how you make it sound lol.

[Craftymind]

Statements that start with "with all due respect" most often lack said respect completely, and this thread delivers on that front.

" most often "... I guess I'm in the minority, then. Stop playing a psychiatrist on the internet, it's cringe.

The title states "a genuine question" where there was none. It's a whine thread.

Then, I'm afraid you are blind, mate.

You could have gotten your point across if you'd put in the effort, but you chose the easy way out. Regrettable.

Our definitions of " effort " differ, I see. Yours is about insults and belittlement, written in seconds, mine is about criticism and passion for the game, expressed in hours of research, testing and writing.

[Craftymind]

OP do you think that the devs out of spite made these changes because they thought '' Craftymind, we hate that guy ''?
That's how you make it sound lol.

That's how YOU interpreted that, in which case, I don't care. You're not the one I'm asking these questions to, anyway.

[Kolsykol]

That's how YOU interpreted that, in which case, I don't care. You're not the one I'm asking these questions to, anyway.

I think it's fairly clear based on how you phrased things.
Have some self-awareness and actually read what you said again.