Shade Shift needs to block Magic Damage too!

[Joe777]

I noticed the comparison to Black Mage, and that's... a bit of a stretch of a comparison. For starters, BLM only gets two forms of mitigation* total. Manaward, our "native" mitigation and Drain, a poor excuse of self-healing. Ninja gets Shadeshift, Second Wind and Bloodbath.

Also, unlike Shadeshift, Manaward is simply a damage barrier. We don't get knockback resistance except through Surecast... and our whole rotation is built on us being on solid ground. So, Ninja is still a heck of a lot safer than BLM in terms of their rotation and their "risky" ability.

*I counted self-heals as mitigation because they mitigate impending death.

I was only comparing Shade Shift and Manaward as simply the fact they are Damage Shields available to those jobs whereas others have to rely on Healers and Tanks. I wasn't trying to actually compare their utility, just the fact the 2 jobs have 1 to rely on period lol