
Originally Posted by
Starflake
Every job has been able to clear content since forever, by that logic, we simply don't need to have balance changes anymore since every job can clear anyway. I can't believe people still use this insanely silly argument. We have enough data to see that Ninja is pretty far behind all other melee in an equal skill level. As a matter of fact, on an equal skill level around 75th percentiles and lower it's even weaker due to people not properly utilising TA. If you don't want to deal in numbers and facts, then don't make blanket statements. Ninja is one of those jobs that has always been massively overrated. If your party is bad, Ninja usually was pretty bad since the value of Trick Attack just wasn't great. Now the data shows that we are 1.5-2K DPS behind other melee. Trick Attack does not make up for that at all. On average, in good teams, Trick Value will be around 1.2k. In most parties I have been in, with timely Trick Attacks, it's been like 800. So there is a huge gap. You see, Ninja is only as strong as the party itself and with strong parties, it does not come close to the rest. This does not only make Ninja an undesirable class in high end groups, but it becomes even more useless in groups that don't work around that synergy. Which is like 90% of the statics (estimate). So no, Ninja is not fine and just because it was "meta" for a long time, doesn't mean we get to throw it in the dumpster.
Dragoon and Bard have pretty much the same rDPS as Ninja in SB, Dragoon even more, and with double physical ranged, it's not even a competition. But everyone always moans about Ninja. People don't understand how Ninja works, they think Trick Attack is this magical buff that gives you insane party DPS. It only does if your party is very good. It was always a fairly average job in fairly average parties, which is almost all of them.