Quote Originally Posted by Camalott View Post
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Admittedly, no, you can't lose as much as GL, since GL is a loss of both damage % and skill speed. However, should you fail a huton (either doing a bunny due to double tapping, getting a lag without noticing, or using a raiton thinking huton was only next, for example), your GCD goes from 2.15 sec to 2.5 sec, and this for a whole 20 seconds. At this point it is probably at least half as damaging as a mnk losing GL3 without PB up, and probably higher than this. Also, if you take too much time before hitting your jutsu, you will need to skip the raiton in the rotation -- a loss of a 360 potency off GCD attack, so about 15 dps lost for the whole minute. Lastly, if you use trick attack just before a phase switch / jump / mechanics where all people have their dps fall somehow, you wasted quite a bit of potential dps too, and you would have been better off using raiton and saving trick attack for 20 seconds later ; this require intimate knowledge of the fight too.

Not saying nin risk anything as bad as losing GL3 though, and that's why i think it is fair for mnk to be slightly above ninjas. But nin gameplay is made of pitfalls too and some of them can really cripple you if you don't pay attention. During progression on FCOB fight, it was frequent for me to hit 500 dps during the first phases of the boss that i knew in and out, and to drop to 400 at the end of the fight, meaning the last phase i was at 350 max, down from 500, just because i had to focus much more on mechanics of the fight and my rotation got sloppy as hell.