Quote Originally Posted by Jaquan View Post
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.

You say 'relegated' here like being a buffing class is a bad thing. And yes, one ability can be that impactful. Old Trick's short cooldown and power (5% is the second-highest DMG buff iirc? might be wrong) means it is up 25% of the time - Mug's uptime is only 16.67%, and it's one of the better buffs out there at the moment.

Again, you say weird connections -- I'd call that synergy, personally -- but I don't think I'm understanding you when you say that it limits Ninja's personal growth. We've been growing just fine -- Raijus are a fun addition to the job, even if they took a bit of tweaking. There's plenty of room to add different mudras, add more Ninki spenders, add more oGCDs; hell, maybe we even get another gauge to manage so we have something to do during our downtime. We could bring DOT management back, have some different combo paths, there's really infinite possibilites.

You say Dancer and Bard have more room to grow, but I'm not quite understanding where you're coming from. Why do you need to weaken synergy between classes in order for them to experience 'growth'? That just sounds like we'd be headed towards a future where there's no party buffs at all - and at that point, we might as well be playing a single player game.

I do want what I do to impact other classes, y'know? I like buffing, and I want to keep doing it. As it stands, Ninja has gone from one of three (buffer-types) to one of twelve (classes with a two-minute buff). It's definitely gotten less unique.