Thread: Ninja's melds

This is aimed toward Ninja Mains, but ill take feedback from anyone who is knowledgeable on the subject of melds.

What are some of you melding into your 320+ gear?

I've looked around on reddit and it seems that most agree that Direct Hit > every other stat but thats about where the agreement ends. Many people seem to have been going the DH> DET > Crit while some argue that DH> Crit> Det is worthwhile with ilvl 345 weapons (need to look that up to see what they mean).

That said, i have no idea where skill speed fits in there, if at all.

Im currently lvl 319 and have been looking for ways to maximize my DPS outside of simply perfecting my rotations.

So what are other 70 Nins melding?

Once full BiS is available with relic weapons, i'll be going Crit>DH>Sks>Det.

Why SkS over Det? Personal preference and because without anything to help you attack faster, Nin rotation is just very clunky and it doesn't flow like I want it to. With 1600 Skillspeed for example, Nin goes from being this super slow cluncky attacker to actually feeling extremely fluid, even more so if you get fairy speed and/or Arrow(which you will never receive). It's just a real crapshoot trying to maintain Armor Crush without it to the point of just giving up and hard casting Huton every once in a while to help alleviate that clunkyness. It'll also give you more value out of crit/dh alongside the innate dps gains the stat offers.

Right now though with limited access to stat customization/gear, Direct Hit and Det offer a ton of bang for the buck.

Originally Posted by Adelaide3

Once full BiS is available with relic weapons, i'll be going Crit>DH>Sks>Det.

Why SkS over Det? Personal preference and because without anything to help you attack faster, Nin rotation is just very clunky and it doesn't flow like I want it to. Also because every AST in existence will never give us our best possible raid buff in the entire game which is Arrow.

My build was Crit> DH up until a few weeks ago when i tweaked it to DH> Crit (they are only roughly 200 points apart atm). My DET is not even at 1k because i never considered it as a main stat for a NIN.

With your SKS > Det, about how much skill speed is that for you roughly? Im pretty sure i read that there is a basic SKS threshold nins need to reach ideal GCD speed but im not sure what that speed is at all.