NIN Opener / Rotation

[MrCookTM]

RE: Skill Speed - it seems like people are really considering it for NIN since TP isn't really being a huge issue for anybody.

TP is still an issue, even for Nin. In T8 you will still run dry if you fuck up invigorate timing and goad is not usable on yourself.

Besides that, this was never the reason why sks is not good for melee dps, just the reason why most monks will stack crit over sks, because while they are similarly low in terms of stat weights, stacking crit doesn't have a real downside like running dry in high uptime fights. The only reasons why crit is weighted so low on mnk are a) traited inner release and b) bootshine autocrit every second rotation. Nin doesn't have either of them so crit is weithed higher for nin than mnk by default. The question now is, is sks also weighted higher? If so, why should it?

Like I already pointed out, sks is a bad attribute because SE designed it in a bad way. The fact that it only affects gcd and not auto attacks (and of course not ogcd skills and not dots) puts it at a pretty big disadvantage versus crit and det, both of which increase the damage of everything you do, no matter if it's a regular gcd skill, dot, auto attack (which is roughly 30% of a melee dps' damage) or ogcd skills.

I am all up for trying and theory crafting different builds, even for trying to make stuff like sks on a melee/tank/bard or spellspeed on a summoner work. I just don't think that this will end in a dps increase for the above stated reasons.