Quote Originally Posted by Gserpent View Post
NIN is balanced. You need to pressure them into using mudras on defense. That's the primary method of dealing with them - not necessarily trying to kill them, but forcing them to use Meisui or Huton so they have less offense available.
Tools spent on a NIN are tools unavailable for the rest of their team. And besides, the sheer fact that NIN even has those sorts of options and survivability is exactly what makes it so strong. You yourself are admitting that actually killing them is often too much to ask. And the second you allocate your resources elsewhere, the NIN can just switch gears and go to town. That, or Seiton cleans up a close teamfight like no other ability in the game can do.

NIN has good single-tgt damage, aoe, burst, dps, cc, ranged options, (safe) mobility, and best-in-class safety through bunshin/huton. It's top of the dps food chain by miles in almost every category, only beaten out in aoe by a handful of casters.

Quote Originally Posted by Risvertasashi View Post
And, there's a lot more healer diversity now. So I'm glad SE didn't listen to the "nerf WHM into the ground" crowd, among other things - people posting these sorts of threads clearly have no clue how to balance CC.
MoN remains one of the best cc's in the game, and Purgation one of the best and fastest LBs. Just because people have discovered AST had a higher skill cap doesn't make WHM any less broken. I'd really like to see an API release, because idk what healer diversity you're seeing that I'm missing. Most everyone is still spamming WHM/AST, with a smattering of SCHs and maybe 5 Crystal SGE mains in the whole DC.