Thread: 5.1 NIN slowed down and uninteresting

Originally Posted by Solowing

Ill still do what ive been doing, but my takeaway from this is adding queuing up Kassatsu after after Suiton for my choice of rotation, as well as adding in ShadowFang post Bunshin(its double clipping, but it doesn't bother me because i dont mind it). But again, i rather have weaving as a playstyle back rather then it be restricted moreso to a burst window

Just because you would rather have a "weaving" playstyle doesn't change the fact that your opener and rotation is extremely bad and losing out on significant amounts of due to the arrangement and placement of your abilities in your opener.

Originally Posted by Lucy_Pyre

Your entire opener is still a complete mess and, frankly, bad. Applying Shadow Fang so early is absolutely awful as not only is it missing out on potency from your own Trick Attack, but from the rest of the party's raid buffs as well. The next issue that arises is that immediately you double weave Trick and Bunshin at the same time, which is causing unnecessary clipping from the unnecessary double weave. Next up you activate Kassatsu DURING Trick, rather than priming it prior to entering Trick, which adds an additional unnecessary weave to your Trick window. Ranryu is applied far too late as well, as putting it at the end of your opening Trick like that risks it hitting after some raid buffs have fallen off and thus losing potency. Finally, you're using too many weaponskills in Trick. You should only be using 3 weaponskills during your opening trick, you have 4 listed, and not even the correct ones at that.

This is what you *should* be doing, and this is under the assumption that you aren't using a Dex pot. If you are simply weave Kassatsu immediately after Suiton instead.

Suiton -> Spinning Edge -> Kassatsu -> Gust Slash -> Mug -> Aeolian Edge -> Bunshin -> Spinning Edge -> Trick Attack -> Dream Within A Dream -> Shadow Fang -> Assassinate -> Hyosho Ranryu -> Raiton -> Ten Chi Jin (Suiton combo) -> Mesui -> Gust Slash -> Bhavacakra -> Aeolian Edge -> Bhavacakra (Trick ends here) -> Raiton -> Spinning Edge (final Bunshin charge).

Not only does this align as much of your heavy hitting burst as possible with the maximum amount of raid buffs, but it sets you up for your following Trick windows. By using the final Raiton immediately after Trick ends (Aeolian Edge + Bhava + Bunshin = 980 pot VS Raiton's 800, thus getting it in Trick is superior) you have primed your mudras for the rest of your rotation, not touching them again until you have stored one charge and using Suiton just before you cap on your second charge, and using Kassatsu on cooldown which will cause you to prime it a few seconds before going into your next Trick.

Is there a reason why you've quadruple-weaved here? Assassinate with it's animation lock as well.

Originally Posted by Seraphor

Is there a reason why you've quadruple-weaved here? Assassinate with it's animation lock as well.

Shadow Fangu is GCD.

Originally Posted by PomPomFlare

Shadow Fangu is GCD.

Thanks, I keep forgetting that. XD

Making more changes should be a priority when such a considerable amount of people who mained the class hate it now. (In JP even more people are upset.)

It's infuriating that they fixed the Nier butt glitch immediately but they don't return shadow fang and ogcd jutsus to how they were.

I came back after dropping the game for some time because some friends asked me to but I can't stand Nin being DNC 2.0.
I have tried switching to: MCH,DRG,DNC,RDM,GNB,SMN,SAM (and now I'm leveling BRD) but I keep getting bored. The problem is that NIN was the fastest and most complex class, we can't simply switch to another similar class. I have found nothing similar to ninjutsus either.

Also, it's frustrating how they made NIN less unique:
1.If you like timing and cramming everything into a window, you could use MCH, GNB or DRG (to a lesser extent)
2.If Ninjutsus being oGCD bothered you, you could try DNC, SAM, or magic dps.
3.If the clipping caused by Ninjutsus gave you OCD, you can try virtually any other class.
4. If you didn't like Nin being mostly melee range and enjoy using far away Ninjutsus, you could try the whole batch of magic and ranged dps.

Point is, if you mained Ninja because you loved weaving ninjutsus with melee and don't want to be waiting for gcds, you are left with nothing. Plus I hate getting to do mostly 123 nothing outside of TA.

Honestly, they should have added a side class to Ninja (like SMN and Sch) that shares gear and give the gcd ninjutsus to one of them only. That way there wouldn't be so many people upset.