Is the Ninja nerf really needed?

[Synestra]

There's really no reason a solo nin should be able to kill any healer provided they had 1-2 CDs available, let alone win a 2 v 4.

True but just like you corrected most are "not so good" in FL's when it comes to pvp including your teammates most of time, but still stunlock+silence combo can screw even more experienced healers specially when you open with TA.

[Velox]

lol at ppl crying because they want their no-brain class to stay stronk xc

People on forums tend to not do so well in the "reading" department. They see the word "nerf" and assume the worse, completely missing the whole "designed to be top DPS on purpose" part of the post. MMO gamers simply can't grasp at the fact that a job can get a nerf and still stay at the top.

The only thing this patch is going to do is take this



And make it more like this



And look at that, NIN is still on top. Oh lawdy, y'all can take down dem road blocks now and put the torches out. Repent and thou shalt be saved!

Just for fun, if we were to believe all these doom-n-gloom posts about the fall of NIN, we would end up with something like this

[Truth_Chikara]

Ninja isn't top dps as it is, the hell are you talking about? If your ninja is parsing higher than your monk, you need a new monk.

[Adrian74]

Sorry, like often, I already did my own thread about this, didn't see this one. (Baka neko...)

But I agree, NIN nerf was not necessary. They are basing the nerf in the top ninjas that manage to do the max damage it can... It is like if you nerf MNK because that... I mean... How many MNKs and NINs manage to do that? 5%?

Average players won't notice such things but it is a low hit for that minority, to be honest.

[Zumi]

Stop acting like coil is the only content in this freaking game that matters... SE has the data they need, and they will adjust it accordingly.

Nerfs and buffs are almost always based on highest tier progression content. Not low ilvl dungeons.

If the highest skilled players are playing both monk and ninja, monk still comes out on top and that is a fact.

[Sarynth]

Just my two cents but I always thought having to memorize and use ninjutsu properly was enough to balance ninjas high damage.

[Riardon]

Happy to see Dragoons back on the track. Remember that classes supposed to be equal. You choose the class you like the most not because their dps output is greater. If nerf is needed to make Ninja equal to the others then yes nerf him. People see the word nerf and imagine that their class will be useless. That's not the case. We don't want a game with imbalanced and OP classes. We are supposed to choose what we like and not what dps the most.

[Mogi]

This is a good thing i pull off 1100k and 1200 with my nin my dragoon i do sometimes 1000 or 1100 at times but nin a lot more dragoon is strength nin is Dexterity they need the nerf

[Adrian74]

Just my two cents but I always thought having to memorize and use ninjutsu properly was enough to balance ninjas high damage.

And you're right... Because of it some lazy ninjas use macros. But believe me, it takes A LOT to cast mudras using a macro, if you set 0.5 timers, and you can't set 0.4 or such, it failures... So those lazy nin end, like all lazy players after all, dealing less damage overall.

[ServerCollaps]

There is a reason why the first final coil clears went double monk.

they had no time for the ninja grind