Quote Originally Posted by butchersblock View Post
Having played a fair bit of every tank and most melees, I'll have to disagree here. Xenos often likes to say something to the effect of, "GNB isn't harder than WAR. it's just busier." Against a target dummy perhaps, but busy will always be far more difficult, having to press more than an oGCD or two while having to reposition boss, do the mechanic, keep uptime, etc.

I've stated before that I don't believe Ninja is anywhere near as difficult as people that don't play it much would have you believe. This probably comes from Ninja having more of a high skill floor and entry barrier than other jobs because of Mudras and very high APM during burst. Meanwhile jobs such as current Black Mage, ShB Samurai and Summoner had an insanely high skill ceiling tied to encounter design that I found much more difficult to fully optimise than Ninja. That being said, NIN still has enough going for it in terms of gameplay to not put me to slumber, unlike certain other Endwalker DPS jobs.
I guess I'll have to agree to disagree with you on this!

For me, having played a fair bit of Ninja in EW, I don't need to put any thought into the buttons I'm pressing, because it's so rote, and pretty much every fight this tier is full melee uptime, unless you get a handful of specific mechanics (i.e. odd number tethers in p2s, dark tether in p4sp2 act 4) which force you to eat some downtime. Even then, Ninja has great tools to deal with this downtime.

I definitely think that something like moving a boss whilst bursting as GNB is genuinely difficult, because you're pulling a balancing act where you disconnect from the boss to position it, but get back within max melee to land your abilities. I wouldn't say Ninja has to do things like that, but I will concede that eating some downtime and properly squeezing in your oGCDs can be a little tough in certain circumstances. My personal stance is just that the huge numbers of tools you have as a Ninja to handle disconnects over other jobs more than makes up for this.

But, my experiences are of course not universal!