The Ninja Superthread

[Pluvia]

Well, I was being sarcastic there, but meh.
Yea, I want to see how these skills are supposed to shine... I get it that at the end of ARR I just couldn't go with my NIN to anything but WoD or EX roulettes because 95% of the Tanks outside of those would lose threat to me. And even in the EX and WoD NIN DPS was pretty insane... and there were more than a few situations in which I wished to have these skills already. Even had to micromanage the Venoms because the DPS from the NIN is remarkably high from the get-go.

So I get how its that for ARR but right now my outlook of HW is rather blurry.
All I can see, right now, is that MNK and DRG (and even BRD, BLM and SMN) have quite the burst that could make things a bit unstable for the Tank, and they gave, or rather pushed onto, the NIN the possibility to support them. After all, NIN's slashing debuff already boosts all the Tank's DPS, and maybe Goad was designed with Tanking support in mind.

But the main reason as of why I think they implemented these on the NIN is because unlike MNK and DRG, NIN can start the fight with a 20% more damage and 15% faster attack from the get-go, and that it resulted in troubling the Tanks.

None of the threat abilities work on us (the info i was getting from others on the server was incorrect i have tested it myself our second ability is for us)
thats what i was getting at so was trying to see if i was crazy on what I was reading from the live letter