Ninja vs Samurai vs Monk ?

[Rohirrim]

Greetings everyone. I am trying to decide which job to get to 70 :P Currently I have all these Jobs at 58-60. I am mostly interested to know how they compare in AoE damage since I 90% play dungeons and would like to have good aoe damage on trash pulls!

I find Ninja and Samurai equal fun to play, well ninja little more :P For Monk I really cannot decide if I like or not... on one hand I like the theme of the class, but it is much more dependant on positionals than other 2 that make it little tiresom and actually more difficult for me to play good.

So I would pick Monk only if its AoE damage is significantly higher than Ninja/Samurai... What do you think?

[MomoOG]

Greetings everyone. I am trying to decide which job to get to 70 :P Currently I have all these Jobs at 58-60. I am mostly interested to know how they compare in AoE damage since I 90% play dungeons and would like to have good aoe damage on trash pulls!

I find Ninja and Samurai equal fun to play, well ninja little more :P For Monk I really cannot decide if I like or not... on one hand I like the theme of the class, but it is much more dependant on positionals than other 2 that make it little tiresom and actually more difficult for me to play good.

So I would pick Monk only if its AoE damage is significantly higher than Ninja/Samurai... What do you think?

In dungeon content SAM is by far the strongest.

[Gallus]

Monk's aoe is pretty bursty, but doesn't have a very high sustained. Elixir Field + Howling Fist + Rockbreaker every 3 GCDs is all you have. Of course you can always burn perfect balance and spam rockbreaker, but then your opener is most likely screwed on the next boss. Arm of the destroyer is also there btw... but the damage it does for the TP it costs is so godawful that using it makes me cry.

[SpeckledBurd]

Samurai's single target beats Monk and Ninja's single target assuming equal skill, with Monk and Ninja being about equal. Samurai's AOE is also significantly stronger in smaller and Medium sized packs of Mobs, as most of its AOE actions scale down with more targets. Monk has great AOE that isn't subject to dropoff, so there's likely a point where it exceeds Samurai in AOE if a pull is massive enough, it's other main benefit is how sustainable it's AOE rotation is, as Monk has two TP recovery skills allowing for Almost indefinite Rockbreaker usage compared to Samurai which runs dry fairly quickly in my own experience.

I don't know enough about Ninja AOE to say more than "it has a frog now".

[Rohirrim]

thanks for answering.. to be honest was hoping ninja to win but samurai is also fun to play hehe :P

[SuperNoob]

Samurai. Trust me.

[Rohirrim]

Samurai. Trust me.

hehe I will :P

[Adelaide3]

Ninja AoE is probably the best out of any of any of the melee jobs. Frog, Doton, Katon, Kassatsu and Ten Chi Jin allows for so much damage. Befriend the AST for Arrow cards and you'll have so much fun, I know I do.

Single target dps is also amazing and once the best in slot gear is released, we'll have an understanding of which dps is performing the best during raids because having our main stats is half of it.

[KingFrost]

Depends on the dungeon, fight, raid, whatever. I usually out damage a fellow Sam, but that just may be be on my ish.

Just flip a coin for nin and Sam. They're all very pretty DPS.

[ElazulHP]

Samurai hands down is the best out of all the DPS classes right now IMO. Has excellent single target DPS and FIVE aoe skills in its rotation so you do massive damage there as well. Overall, it just hits like a truck and its rotation is very simple and easy to manage. As for positionals SAM only have two but if you don't get it right you don't lose any damage. You just don't gain a slight extra amount of Kenki... which is no biggie because its easy to gain.