Quote Originally Posted by Llynethil View Post
You can't have a job that has and strong melee damage, and strong ranged damage, and a pretty substantial shield, and hard cc, and an extra heal, and high mobility.
It doesn't have those all at once. It is a *choice* between high ranged damage or a shield or self-heal. It's a choice between damage or stun. It's a choice between holding Shukuchi as an escape button, or committing it for extra damage.

A NIN spending absolutely everything on offense does less burst than almost any other melee (it's good damage but it's across several GCDs) and has absolutely zero sustain or defense - it cannot teleport away, it cannot use the Huton shield or Meisui heal, it is just meat on the table. A NIN that commits everything to defense is very hard to kill, indeed, but has the lowest damage in the game (even worse than PLD) and also lacks control (at least PLD has that 3 sec stun to secure kills with.) A NIN that splits the difference does good damage and is reasonably hard to kill, but doesn't do anywhere near as much damage as other classes, and isn't necessarily harder to kill than some other classes.

NIN has a wide toolkit, but it cannot access all of that toolkit simultaneously. It has to balance resource spending on the fly and understand when to go aggressive and when to be defensive.

NIN is fine. People are just bad at the game and just want to cry about the thing that killed them.