Ninja: "So.. about that Storm's Eye?"

[Nayto]

It's going to be a no-brainer that Rogue/Ninja is going to be slashing based damage. You could lob them with the piercing damage group but curved shortswords/ninjato is their promo weapon at the moment.

Though, right now unlike other DPS, their slash resist down debuff is relegated to a tank, whom may prioritize (despite having an amazing hate rushdown) their mitigation combo over maximizing DPS, since obviously survival is their first priority.

So... do you guys think we'll see a change in storm's eye because of this? Will we be stripped of the slash down (if ROG/NIN become part of the slash damage group) and be given something else?

After all, they did this with BRD's 'rain of death' damage down debuff and handed it to MRD/WAR. So it kinda raises a slight concern.

Don't really see why they would. Dragoon buffs both their own and a bard's damage. I can't really think of any reason keeping Storm's Eye as is would unbalance things.

That's kinda what I'm trying to get at though. Unless they have their own slash resist down that stacks with ours (which would be OPish I'd think) their extra DPS is on a role that isn't focused on damage.

There are also times where a WAR might be tanking a separate add/part like leviathan where melee can't touch. In this case, yeah he can go to that melee friendly add/part and throw down a storms eye (I do this to give better hate generation for the PLD.. but only at the start) but that's a lot of down-contact time going between the two things.

[whiskeybravo]

Don't really see why they would. Dragoon buffs both their own and a bard's damage. I can't really think of any reason keeping Storm's Eye as is would unbalance things.

[Shinkyo]

I see it as a good thing since it'll encourage WAR to use SE more often.
While it won't be up 100% of the time, it'll give good boost to the party's overall DPS.

Will WAR/PLD and 4 NIN be the new party setup ?

[Kojikensei]

Will WAR/PLD and 4 NIN be the new party setup ?

Honestly, 1 WAR 6 NIN 1 SCH is going to be freaking epic for some fights. "Titan EX in 0:45!"

Edit: Titan will die before add phase lol.

[Marxam]

Honestly, 1 WAR 6 NIN 1 SCH is going to be freaking epic for some fights. "Titan EX in 0:45!"

Edit: Titan will die before add phase lol.

You'll also see 6 ninjas jump on Titan's head and stab him like the wanderer in Shadow of the Colossus.

[Alistaire]

You'll also see 6 ninjas jump on Titan's head and stab him like the wanderer in Shadow of the Colossus.

Incoming animation lock deaths like drg gets when jumping. Still.

[Fue]

Well if its going to be as big of a difference as piercing debuff is for bards. Might just start doing double warrior for raids, just to keep that debuff up all the time.

[Cidant]

Honestly any war that's not keeping SE near 100% of the time should prob not be playing war so I believe they will just leave SE on war(hopefully).

[Delorean]

Yeah....because +20% more dmg from tank is life saver.

If applying Storm's Eye was a 20% damage increase, you'd have to be mental not to use it.

Honestly any war that's not keeping SE near 100% of the time should prob not be playing war

I think there are more essential skills to master in the role of playing a Warrior than managing to squeeze out an extra 5% damage in a role that doesn't even specialize in damage.

[Skull_Angel]

I think there are more essential skills to master in the role of playing a Warrior than managing to squeeze out an extra 5% damage in a role that doesn't even specialize in damage.

It should equate to an 11% increase in damage when up.

Personally, I'm with the guys that push for keeping it up as much as possible; War only brings one utility with it outside of it's tanking abilities, and that's increasing it's damage. When you can execute your main priorities without issue you should be working on utilizing your job's other beneficial traits/actions, warrior's happens to be increasing it's ability to deal damage. Do you sacrifice your main priorities to do so? No, but you should squeeze it in whenever you are realistically able to. You don't have to push the envelope of what your class/job is capable of, but you're doing a disservice to yourself and your party members.