Allow ROGUE/NINJA's Hide ability to actually... hide.

[lolicon09]

Useless ability. Having some rp fun is the only use for it

Blend in with your surroundings, making it impossible for most enemies to detect you, but reducing movement speed by 50%. Has no effect on enemies 10 levels higher than your own, or certain enemies with special sight.
Additional Effect: Restores 2 charges to all mudra

It's so useless you just have to use it before starting a boss fight (after Huton of course) and/or before the tank pulls the next pack of trash in a dungeon.


Aside from that, what would be the point of fully disappearing from other people screens in a 100% PvE game?

[Zomkei]

NINs are already underpowered compared to other dps so why not giving them a little buff that's both good numerically and mechanically?

ninjas are far from underpowered. all this thread has taught me is a lot of ppl don’t know how to play ninjas lol

[DPZ2]

You really want to be unseen by party members because ... ? Heck, even the WoW Rogue stealth isn't perfect, although it is extremely useful in PvP.

[Gameovers]

SHHHH I'm spying.

[Allegor]

My only pet peeve with NIN, and this is just me being nitpicky, is they have one ability that requires to be hidden, and even then you have a mudra to discard the hide requirement, because you can't even use Hide in combat, and then they get another mudra to dispel the buff that takes away the hide requirement to generate ninki ....why not just take out the requirement entirely? seems like just button bloat to me /shrug

[Masked-dingus]

ninjas are far from underpowered. all this thread has taught me is a lot of ppl don’t know how to play ninjas lol

i agree, NIN are really not underpowered at all
i already miss playing my ninja this tier ( decided to try caster in savage for once )

[Payadopa]

Why exactly do you want to be completely invisible to other players? They can still see your name above your head anyway.

I have names off for everyone except party members and friends. Does wonders for immersion.

[Iscah]

I have names off for everyone except party members and friends. Does wonders for immersion.

I did that for 5.0 and it was nice, although then I sometimes mistook people for unlabelled NPCs and I didn't like that.

[HyperiusUltima]

My only pet peeve with NIN, and this is just me being nitpicky, is they have one ability that requires to be hidden, and even then you have a mudra to discard the hide requirement, because you can't even use Hide in combat, and then they get another mudra to dispel the buff that takes away the hide requirement to generate ninki ....why not just take out the requirement entirely? seems like just button bloat to me /shrug

If we're talking about Trick, Hide isn't necessarily useless. Resetting Mudras after Huton is usually how you go about using it, but outside of that sure, we can call it defunct; but then you have to ask about the ROGUE CLASS QUESTS. Yeah, those.

There's one at Lv 15 that requires you to Hide. Also consider that Trick is Lv 18. You aren't going to be casting Suiton until Lv 45, bud. That's at least 30 Levels. After that, it becomes a Reset Tool on openers. As for Hiding in Combat, it's probably done that way so that it isn't as easily accessed early on(because BOY do things BURN early if you applied Trick more than once a fight before Lv 45). Going from bottom up, at Lv 80 there are no qualms about handling Suiton, and also converting that Suiton to Ninki. In reality, it's not button bloat, but is a way to give Suiton a new use rather than just have it as "use this if Trick is coming up in 5s".

I will say in general being able to Hide to reset Mudras after expending both uses after a mob pack feels good and helps with NIN's flow in Dungeons. If it didn't have that aspect, NIN would be a bit disjointed in its usage despite the 20s lockout for a charge.

[Jin-]

I rest my case. Only played it during ARR/HW. And completely skipped SB where they supposedly made the changes