The Ninja Superthread

[Sleigh]

I think a nice band-aid fix that'd impact almost nothing else negatively would be to change Chi and Jin's single use Mudra to Raiton and Suiton respectively, especially since Suiton will presumably be the only long Mudra used in combat constantly. Probably not their intent to make their mythical Ninjutsu system a one press system for the majority of the fights, but I doubt having NA/EU players losing a couple of seconds for no reason throughout a fight was their intent either.

[Alahra]

I think a nice band-aid fix that'd impact almost nothing else negatively would be to change Chi and Jin's single use Mudra to Raiton and Suiton respectively, especially since Suiton will presumably be the only long Mudra used in combat constantly. Probably not their intent to make their mythical Ninjutsu system a one press system for the majority of the fights, but I doubt having NA/EU players losing a couple of seconds for no reason throughout a fight was their intent either.

It's actually always really bugged me that all 3 single-mudra inputs do the same Ninjutsu. I would be on board with this, though they'd probably have to rebalance potencies a bit if did it this way.

[Ryaz]

Mudra lag will probably be the main reason I start playing Machinist. I like the way a Ninja plays and the way combat flows with it, but losing a big chunk of dps because of something you can't control and is inconsistent really is annoying.

[Ephier]

I like the way a Ninja plays and the way combat flows with it, but losing a big chunk of dps because of something you can't control and is inconsistent really is annoying.

My issue with NIN in one sentence.

[Butcherboy]

Lol same here. I took my nun when it first came out then I realize I dislike rabbits.

[Arkenne]

Lol same here. I took my nun when it first came out then I realize I dislike rabbits.

I dont know why Im laughing so hard...
Just kind of pictured a nun doing all the ninja stuff and throwing bunnies around.

Something like this:

Yep

[Allyrion]

*cries*
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EDIT:

Info from patch notes:

[3.0] New job actions have been added.

Ninja
Level Action
52 Smoke Screen
54 Armor Crush
56 Shadewalker
58 Duality
60 Dream Within a Dream

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[2.0] In accordance with the raise in level cap, the following job actions and parameters have been adjusted.

Ninja

Shade Shift (Perfect Dodge)
Aeolian Edge

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So, I guess Shade Shift is related to Shadewalker but it implies these are 2.0 adjustments.
They label them by 2.0 and 3.0 depending on the content it affects.
Only thing I can think of is they added an ability or trait into 1-50.

Still no potencies or anything about the positionals unless that's what they added to Aeolian Edge.

[Pluvia]

*cries*
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EDIT:

Info from patch notes:

[3.0] New job actions have been added.

Ninja
Level Action
52 Smoke Screen
54 Armor Crush
56 Shadewalker
58 Duality
60 Dream Within a Dream

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[2.0] In accordance with the raise in level cap, the following job actions and parameters have been adjusted.

Ninja

Shade Shift
Aeolian Edge

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So, I guess Shade Shift is related to Shadewalker but it implies these are 2.0 adjustments.
They label them by 2.0 and 3.0 depending on the content it affects.
Only thing I can think of is they added an ability or trait into 1-50.

Still no potencies or anything about the positionals unless that's what they added to Aeolian Edge.

Shade shift is perfect dodge

[Arkenne]

Level Action
52 Smoke Screen
54 Armor Crush
56 Shadewalker
58 Duality
60 Dream Within a Dream

Shade Shift (Perfect Dodge)
Aeolian Edge

So Shade Walker = Perfect Dodge? Hmm... if thats so, what sort of change might they bring to it?? All I can think of is either reducing the cooldown in a 50% or adding the Aggro reduction effect to it...

Smoke Screen is going to be the Aggro management of some sort, I believe? Then maybe Shadewalker is another Aggro management? Sounds weird...

About Aeolian being the only tentative positional addition, does kind of remind me to the venom things they were saying on NIN release, that there would be many with different effects and would not be DoT based class. Just to turn out to be no more than 2 and you could (if you ever wanted to) stay with one for a whole month without even switching or dropping it. Oh well :v

Well, nothing stops them to give the new offensive skills a positional too tho :/
So chances are still there...

Duality might be Issou, right? Then Dream Within a Dream might be Mugen Sandan? =___=* patience... patience... only 2 more days!!

About the Limitbreak, its pretty cool looking, specially against Rabana.

PLD: I Have one Big Sword!
NIN: I have 2 daggers as Big as a PLD Sword!
DRK: I have 1 Big 2-Handed Sword!!
Rabana: I have 4 Big 2-Handed Swords that I use with one hand each!
NIN: Well, I have 13 (visible so far, possibly 14) Big Flaming Soul Swords that float in the air while I do a Power Ranger pose!!

[Allyrion]

Yea, I just came back to correct it.