RIP Ninja

[Allyrion]

why that? simple, because some people will not buy the expansion, and if the boost from the positional is an increase of the actual dps... it will make the jobs unbalanced for the player without the expansion.

Seems like a weak reason.
Pre max level content is never balanced, 50 is now leveling content.
Do you really think they're not going to change the balance of the current classes in addition to the new abilities.
All Jobs will now be balanced by the full kit. They're not going to keep all the potencies the same just to keep old content balanced.
It's really unlikely all classes won't have some potency changes to their current abilities simply to adjust for the new abilities and to balance around what the other classes get.

If positionals are bonus potencies, WM will be bonus damage for standing still.
We'll be balanced around that, so the numbers right now are really irrelevant because they can always be adjusted and certainly will be for 3.0.
No one is getting free damage, it will all be taken into consideration they look at balance.

If they're successful at simulating the Jobs in a live battle is another matter, but retaining old numbers and pre-50 kits just for people who won't buy the expansion?
Yea, that would be a design flaw and I'll be really surprised if SE care at all about 50 balance after the level cap is raised.

I'm pretty sure the positional is applied to the Huton refresh move which will be added onto the end of the gust slash combo. If this is it then it's hardly game breaking. The job could use a bit more complexity to be honest. I haven't seen any info about them retroactively adding positionals to previous moves so unless someone can source such a thing I'd say it's rumor and a baseless concern at best.

Nah, not baseless. They implied it's added to old moves and they said several.

Furthermore, we have added positioning to several weapon skills. Current ninja doesn’t have much positioning and was able to attack from any direction freely, so we included positioning for some.

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