Quote Originally Posted by aloneatsea View Post
I don't know, I just... mm. The solo experience shouldn't suck, but it just seems a little backwards to me to balance an MMO -- a multiplayer-focused game -- on a solo player experience. Make it not suck, absolutely! Make it reasonable and clearable. But -- shit, Ninja was one of three big buffing classes in the game. Now we just have Dancer and Bard as big buffers. Sure, many jobs have two-minute buffs (12/19, by my count), but when everyone has a two-minute buff, it's the same thing as nobody having a two-minute buff...
Don't you see an Irony here? Ninja - a job with a single party wide buff was relegated to the same role as Dancer and Bard despite the latter devoting half of their kit towards that goal. A single ability that created so many weird connections that Ninja has pretty much no room for personal growth without a risk of making it broken. Even Dancer and Bard have more room to growth since at worst all you need to do is ti weaken synergy with another class yet that doesn't really apply to one that synergizes on high level with almost every other party member.