Alternatives to "nerfing" ninja

[dday3six]

DRG is by far the worst DPS in the game. Not unviable though. I know that fully well. But the problem is, classes are not really balanced for what the top end DPSers can do. (Though I could be wrong) It's great that 0.01% of the DRG community are skilled enough to pull those sort of numbers. But that requires some intense sort of knowledge and skill of the class to do. The average joe still needs more unfortunately.

I will however, not be convinced of anything until I see the true numbers on my screen. That was my point.

I see that a lot of these forums. People making grandiose comments when they actually have nothing to back it up.

Well that's the problem, when people say Ninja out DPS's Monk they are often talking about a better skilled Ninja vs a lesser skilled Monk.

That's fine. If there are two MNKs in the group, you do this.

If there is a BRD and a DRG, you do this.

But it doesn't matter what the actual composition, if there a NIN in the group, you add 105 from EVERYONE. Even the Tanks, even the healers spamming Stone II. There is a huge difference here.

The is the problem I have with adding the TA damage for the whole raid. It's a mass of assumption. It assumes everyone is attacking the same target for those ten seconds, and no matter how coordinated a raid is that rarely happens.

[Violyre]

Instead of nerfing NIN, we should buff everyone else and lower their TP costs!

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[Parodine]

Call me a cynic, but the incoming buffs to DRG are probably going to be more quality of life adjustments rather than straight damaging buffs.

They'll be increasing the MDEF we know. They'll be loosening the positional requirements (probably) to allow Heavy Thrust to give the buff no matter what direction it hits and hopefully allow Impulse Drive to start the combo from wherever it hits.

They'll be doing something with Blood for Blood, but I imagine it will just be adding to the trait that adjusts the LNC form again and probably just lowering the vuln-up we get from it to maybe 20% instead of 30%.

They're gonna do something with recast timers, more likely with Jump, which of course will help, but I'm not expecting anything major. It'll all help, for sure. But eh, maybe I'll be surprised.

[BloodPact]

We're one week before the patch. Anything they're going to do to Ninja has already been settled on and if something is in the final testing checks. So there is no alternative, it's already done and waiting release in 2.45. If they mess up they'll come up with something on 2.5 or in an emergency maintenance before that.

[Mardel]

We're one week before the patch. Anything they're going to do to Ninja has already been settled on and if something is in the final testing checks. So there is no alternative, it's already done and waiting release in 2.45. If they mess up they'll come up with something on 2.5 or in an emergency maintenance before that.

Not necessarily true, I have seen quite a few devs make last minute alterations or go back on changes that were going to be implemented.

[Erudain]

And here i was thinking the mundra lag was nerf enough....