Alternatives to "nerfing" ninja

[RyuDragnier]

A defense buff to make up for the near lack of magic defense. Tank armor has the best, and most even, defenses in the game with the rest of the armors having varying mixes of physical and magical defense. Melee DDs tend to have the worst magic defense (alongside a low physical defense). It's almost laughable to expect a lancer to take a magic blast to the face and live... which is the point of the buff. It's not a buff specific to lancers, it's more a buff to their armor.

They're removing positionals and buffing attacks on DRG. So why do NIN need to be nerfed after that again? Because these changes alone will take DRG higher than NIN in damage, and possibly have them compete with MNK for top DPS. There's no point in nerfing NIN if they're going to buff DRG, it'd be like nerfing BLM while buffing SMN, it makes no sense.