NINJA...New Pet Class!

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'stupid' way? are *you* stupid? it was completely ingenious. are you sore you've never thought up anything innovative and unexpected like that in an MMO?

Odd, as I normally agree with you, but...

Not sure if trolling.

Ninja tanks are iconoclastic to how ninja are presented, both in Final Fantasy and in pretty much all fiction that's ever used them. The ninja strikes from the shadows and is as quick as the night. He's not the center of attention in a fight because they wouldn't last as long against foes the way a knight in armor would.

That's not mentioning that gameplay choice was dead once Utsusemi tanking became mainstream. There were no DPS and tank specs for NIN.

are you guys all sore because NIN was more popular for exp? obviously they'd be more popular- they did more damage and required less healing, leading to faster chains.

Which alone borked class balance during the leveling experience. PLD becoming the "well, we might as well take him because we can't find a NIN" type of choice is beyond unfair when PLD was designed from the ground up to tank.

Let us not forget that up until the increase in AoE use for encounters and the change to make AoE wipe Utsusemi, NIN tanks could laugh at things that would tear a PLD to pieces.