Trick Attack

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You only care about clearing, other people enjoy doing speed kills.

You don't care about optimizing, other people do. Some people even like the thought of adapting and adjusting to an unconvential timer that spices things up a bit in an otherwise extremely scripted and predicatable game.

Different people have different tastes and inclinations and all of them are valid. For a game that prides itself in letting you play every job on the same character, such widespread homogenization is extremely tone-deaf.

You want a pet job? Nah.
You'd like a healer that requires more than one (1) brain cell with engaging downtime? Think of the casuals.
What about a class with meaningful resource management? Are you even listening to yourself?! Management implies failure and I'm literally shaking at the thought of it. tw: failure.
A busy job, maybe? How am I supposed to watch Netflix, then? Thank God 6.2 will fix DRG and AST being too busy.

And you wonder why people aren't happy about Riddle of Trick and Brothermug?

You are mistaken.
I do speedkills.
I optimize.
I perform at a very high level.
I cleared TEA on NIN back in ShB when the content was actually hard and required optimization.
My logs are public.
Do not be condecending.

You can still optimize while not having your job be gimped early in the tier. This changes nothing about NIN at all. You still use TA every minute. You just get a new buff you need to keep track off. If anything this ups the skill ceiling of the job, while bringing up the base damage.


I perform better at NIN than most of the people in this thread, if they even play the job AT ALL- which seems to not be the case for a lot of these complainers. Pray excuse me if I don't take some people's criticism seriously regarding a job they do not play, as they tell me how I'm supposed to feel about a job I've sunk thousands of hours into.

Patchnotes aren't even out and people are acting like they got their favorite toy away from them.

Being the lowest DPS in your category early tier, being compensated by "oh but for speedkills you're great!" isn't healthy. Speedkills are nieche enough as is, and isn't relevant until everyone has their BiS. Or you know, just bring MNK who functions well early tier, aswell as later on.

EDIT:
This isn't a change made to "dumb down" NIN- it's a balancing patch to bring them in line with other jobs in terms of how they scale.
The devs have decided to put everything on a 2 min buff rotation. We can complain all we want about that specifically, but that doesn't change the fact that, well, we're all just bursting at 2 min now. Bringing NIN in line was expected.