Which jobs is at its prime?

[Zodd383]

I just started playing SMN a month ago. I'm actually enjoying it more than any of the other classes I've played. Mostly because I need to keep track of so many things, but I feel rewarded that I can put out more damage based on how well I manage everything.

I've played other classes but found myself dropping them because I'd get bored of their rotations. Some jobs just feel too simple. I like the idea of the game rewarding difficult classes with higher potential damage. More difficult job should be more potential damage and more easier job should be lower but more predictable damage. Then the players can choose which they prefer.

[Yani-Madara]

I'll chime in as a NIN main and say I can't remember it being better. I've always felt they should have pushed the semi-caster role it has stronger and I've gotten exactly what I want from ShB. I see what the complaints are but I'm definitely thinking it's almost there and I love that I'm not purely a trick attack and limit break slave.

I find this ironic, no offense. With 5.1 Nin I feel like a complete TA slave. Following the rotation from the Balance, almost everything needs to be crammed right before and in TA.

TA rigidness is currently so bad that outside of TA you can only use around 0 or 1 Raiton and mostly spam the 123 combo over and over because shadowfang is gone, it's now in TA prison.
*The boring 123 spam is even visible in the rotation planner in the balance discord.

(Unless you don't care to have way lower dps and don't follow it.)

[Eliadil]

I find this ironic, no offense. With 5.1 Nin I feel like a complete TA slave. Following the rotation from the Balance, almost everything needs to be crammed right before and in TA.

TA rigidness is currently so bad that outside of TA you can only use around 0 or 1 Raiton and mostly spam the 123 combo over and over because shadowfang is gone, it's now in TA prison.
*The boring 123 spam is even visible in the rotation planner in the balance discord.

(Unless you don't care to have way lower dps and don't follow it.)

I think that he may have been refering to groups not taking a nin just for TA now, since it's able to pull its own weight in damage now, and not only with utility alone. Sure Nin's rotation is based all around using literally everything in its kit during TA, but it's a solid basis tbh. I'm wondering what they will do with it during the next expac, I hope that nin will have more tools to play outside of Trick, and not another burst to squeeze within.