Could we get a change to Hyoton (PvE)?

[Cabalabob]

If you want to get really good at playing a certain job you need to know what every single ability does. You need to know which ability to use and when to use it. In the case of DPS jobs what you want to achieve by that is, of course, the maximum possible damage output.

In case of the Ninja job however you also need to know what ability never to use: Hyoton.

You are rewarded for knowing when to use hyoton, the times to use it are simply few and far between. It used to be mainly used in pvp but now that has its own skill set hyoton, along with all other binds and sleeps, see little use.

But that doesn’t mean they see none. Palace of the dead springs to mind. If you’re dying, a hyoton will allow you to step away from the fight for a few seconds, this can buy you time to recover CDs, auto heal, use second wind and while this is happening you could have shadowfang eating away the mobs hp without breaking the bind. You could also get aggro from a second mob, bind it and pull the first away so you aren’t taking twice as much damage. A dead dps is doing no dps, hyoton is a dps increase over raiton if it saves your life.

So it is exactly as you describe, you need to know when to use it. And that is not never. To say never use hyoton is to not know what it does and when to use it.

[RenOkamiya]

You are rewarded for knowing when to use hyoton, the times to use it are simply few and far between.

I think what the OP meant was it's useless in raid content were everything is immune to crowd control anyway. I get that in solo content or surviving situation you can use Hyoton as it is, but the main complain here is not the single player mode but more the fact that it's a useless ability. Every class have those thing you never ever use yes, but why let them in the set of thing you can do if nobody uses them?

At the very least if it had the same pitency as Fuma and the bind for 2 mudras, it would not be that bad, but as it is it's useless. Again, every class got some skills like that (the good old feint on DRG back in the days for example, who got removed btw)