Thread: 5.1 NIN slowed down and uninteresting

Originally Posted by Solowing

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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.