Ninja: Heaven-Sword (And Beyond)

[Sleigh]

Can I just ask a quick question? I'm thinking of leveling Ninja soon, possibly, and was curious about one part of your visual rotation (seen here).

In the opener, why do you use Blood for Blood before your first attack? Couldn't you shift it to the empty spot between GS and DE instead, and have it last an extra 4s at the end to pick up both Jugulate and Dream Within a Dream? I figure you're doing it to have it come back sooner, but it just seems to me you'd get more mileage out of it using it then instead of holding it. Am I wrong? D:

Between GS and DE is where pot normally goes.

[JackFross]

Between GS and DE is where pot normally goes.

Alright, that makes sense. And one other question - why is Dream Within a Dream being used where it is? Wouldn't it be more worthwhile to swap its position with Mug? 100x3 potency v 140 potency; even if Mug crits, it would be less potency overall than Dream having 3 non-crit hits. Is there some reason Mug is used first that I'm missing, as well?

[Sleigh]

I can't tell you why it's like that on the chart, I use DwaD after Spinning myself. I would imagine it's to get Internal Release on Mug, but you miss Trick Attacked DwaD so I don't see the benefit to that.

[Pluvia]

Mutilate-TP cost has been reduced from 80 to 70.
Shadow Fang-TP cost has been reduced from 70 to 60.

[Phireblast]

Shouldn't that put our TP Pool back to 2.4's state?(read: never running out of tp) Last time I remember, our only TP adjustment was increasing AE's TP by 10. Probably wrong on that.

Also, another indirect fix I liked is that any skill that has a 0.5 GCD can no longer get a decrease in cooldown by any skill, which sometimes can fuck with mudras too I believe.

[Pluvia]

Shouldn't that put our TP Pool back to 2.4's state?(read: never running out of tp) Last time I remember, our only TP adjustment was increasing AE's TP by 10. Probably wrong on that.

Also, another indirect fix I liked is that any skill that has a 0.5 GCD can no longer get a decrease in cooldown by any skill, which sometimes can fuck with mudras too I believe.

they also changed shadow fang from 60-79 at the same time. So they pretty much reversed the shadowfang tp and then adjusted mutilate

[Phireblast]

I guess we're going back to never running out of TP ever again lol

[Pluvia]

I guess we're going back to never running out of TP ever again lol

Naw it should put us at about the other melee

[MrCookTM]

Naw it should put us at about the other melee

This pretty much. We will sustain slightly better than monk after the changes but at the cost of not having purification.

[Pluvia]

total dex weight for the 210 chest
105.884

total dex weight for the void ark chest
107.276

wouldn't be able to hit the acc cap though in a4s if you used the void ark chest

this obviously isn't taking into account airship gear