Quote Originally Posted by SamSmoot View Post
It's not like Raiton makes you do the Raijus.. If using them would put you in the fire, then just play as you did before they were added, and use them later when you can.
Same as when you move away from the boss to avoid an AOE. You can't use melee distance actions without running back into the bad stuff, so you just don't use them.
It's not like the Raiton makes you do the Raijus - sure, you don't have to if you don't really care for min-maxing. For every Savage fight in SHB, NIN can greed everything and keep their GCD rolling without taking a heavy loss. At worst its a Raiton out of Trick to dodge a mechanic, that's negligible. Like roughly 40p. If we choose to drop Raiju because we have no other choice, the loss is far more noticeable. Not using capstone skills in most cases is a loss. Since most mechanics happen during Trick, we're looking at the potential of dropping Raiju more often than once in a fight, which builds up, and gives NIN far less flexibility in prog, especially in Savage that have DPS checks within the first few days of release.