How will NIN nerfs affect them?

[Sam26]

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I 100% agree with you, I don't know why but I have the feeling that there is some hostility here toward the Job Nin, you have to just read/look across the boards/threads.
Nin got pushed into a supportive role in HW although some people (including myself) didn't like that change... hence we did get the lower end of the stick in HW regarding new shiny abilitys/new mechanics and
sucked 2/3 of the Addon in regard of AOE/multitarget dmg until the developer realized and fixed that a bit, yet I didn't see any real complain thread by Ninjas here and god forbid if a Nin dares to complain about
something... they get immediately attacked by other players with the argument "Nin has been meta since release so just git gud".
Atleast it feels like that...
It didn't really atleast for me feel good to play Nin through HW since you were merely reduced to TA ._. and pretty weak outside of that.


In my opinion they should just give any dps job a DMG utility that is equal strong, so that you actually can play whatever you want and not be like "OMG but that's meta that comp would do 100 more dps" even though that
this "Meta" mostly only matters for Speedkill which is more an epeen thing in my opinion for FFlogs and world first attempts...
Then certain jobs wouldn't also have to suffer outside of the raids... Since there is a bit more of the game outside of raids like solo play/4 mans etc. and while you are able to do them with any job, you still ask
yourself why you have to do way less dmg in these environments just because you are good in 8 man content?
DRG would be a good example... a DRG who does solo stuff does ~500(just an imagined number) dps less than a SAM, so SAM is allowed to do 100% of his performance the whole time he is playing the game while the DRG is only allowed to play at 75%
when he is alone, he needs a full grp to be able to do the 100% aswell.

tldr I believe that balancing DDs arround utility isn't a good thing, it leads to certain jobs beeing weak outside of 8 man content and to certain jobs beeing mandatory but how do you change that without destroying the uniqueness of the Jobs..

I appologize to you all for the ot ._. and my english it's good though to read other opinions about that issue

[Galvuu]

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What exactly is this solo content, out of curiosity? There's msq, killing stuff on the world map... and?
Most 4-man content is so easy that anything works too, so that's not an issue- when the new tomestones come out, most people pretty much do 5 dungeons a week, so that's relatively minor x)
I don't think I'm going to ask myself "why can't I clear this msq duty faster" especially when it's all scripted to death and you wait for the dialogue and scenes and all.

(And come on, NIN single target dps has always been good, even in HW. They weren't Monk or Black Mage, but they were pretty damn decent).

EDIT: note that normally it's much more important to be good on 8-man content- both to actually get clears (Savage) or to be as efficiently as possible farming hard-to-get items (primal tokens for multiple weapons and primal mounts). I do way more trials/raids than dungeons over a patch.