Personally, I think of LNC as the all-around/tp control. I have no problems killing two mobs at once with pierce, skewer 2 and circle slash (yes circle slash is gld, but nobody plays without some outside skills). I hit consistantly (feint for insurance). And even at lvl 29 I can all but completely control the mob's tp ( I get off several tp attacks to their one...two maybe). So against noncasters a full lvl lnc should virtually never see any manuever that cost the mob 1000 or more tp. And against a NM or when you are faced with mobs of ARC and the like, that's a big deal.