NIN -- how does everyone else feel we're doing?

[Alahra]

Why is it that WAR has priority over NIN for the debuff? They both do 100 potency. Many enemies don't heal themselves. Is it so NIN can focus on other combos for greater damage?

That's exactly it, yes. The potency gap between Dancing Edge and Armor Crush/Aeolian Edge is larger than the gap between Storm's Eye and Butcher's Block, so less overall damage is lost if the WAR prioritizes the debuff instead of the NIN.

[CGMidlander]

Why is it that WAR has priority over NIN for the debuff? They both do 100 potency. Many enemies don't heal themselves. Is it so NIN can focus on other combos for greater damage?

Warriors end up having to do Storm's Eye combo for their best DPS anyway, because Maim leads into it and Maim is a crucial part of their DPS.

[Adventica6]

Why is it that WAR has priority over NIN for the debuff? They both do 100 potency. Many enemies don't heal themselves. Is it so NIN can focus on other combos for greater damage?

So we can use our dmg combo instead of using dancing edge,

sometimes the warrior lets his storms eye fall off and doesn't reapply it quickly, this really bothers me as a nin and I am forced to use DE if the warrior sucks at reapplying Storms path,

For the most part storms path/eye forget the name, is on, but every once in a while playing with a warrior I have to use my DE... it's like a punishment for us nins, double dancing edge damage or double the dancing edge debuff timer.

[Jim_Berry]

So- I'm not super experienced in all the new content yet.

I just find the general lack of cool attacks pretty unsatisfying. My boyfriend plays DRG and all his cool dragons flying around and how much he gets to move around for his skills makes me feel SUPER lame.

After learning more about how useful my new ninja skills are for parties I cut them some slack but overall I feel like the story line for our job and the skills given just aren't up to the same standard as DRG.

Our kit is just so calm vs others atm. Too much utility for my taste, it adds helpful things but if I wanted to be helpful I wouldn't be a murdering Ninja! :P

Having played Corsair (COR) a lot in Final Fantasy XIV, I loved utility > dps. I also was a NIN tank. I am a NIN now in FFXIV, and I love the utility.