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Re: Things you don't want to hear when you're invited to a PT.
Well first of all having capped skill does help out a lot if you take a hit at the wrong time. The chance of getting interrupted by an exp mob is still pretty high, probably better than 50%, but 50% is better than 90%. So if it isn't capped, I would recommend buying or synthing a stack or two of tsurara, and casting hyoton as often as possible along with keeping Kurayami on which you should already be doing. Once it's capped it's pretty easy to keep capped with normal debuffs and utsusemi.
As far as timing the cast, the trick is to start casting just before the mob hits you. You can't be interrupted by a hit in the first 10% or so of your cast, and most mobs have a delay of exactly four seconds, so if you can time it so you get hit right after you start casting, the next hit will come right after you get shadows up. The timing is very precise, and sometimes it can be hard to do without slow depending on lag conditions, but there is a window where you can force ichi through 100%.
Watch the mobs, learn the rhythm to their attacks, and when shadows drop wait for the next beat before you start your cast instead of trying to recast immediately. Before 37 you may have to take a hit or two while you're waiting on recast, but it takes some pretty bad luck to put you in danger of death in that interval. Another thing to remember is that when mobs double attack, both attacks happen at the same time even if it takes a while for the second one to animate. So even though it shows the mandy or smithy landing its second attack in the middle of your cast, you won't be interrupted so long as the first hit was at the start of your spell.
And at 21, don't sweat it too much. You've probably only tanked for a handful of parties and might not have the timing down yet even if you knew about the trick to begin with. But I see career ninjas in the 40s and 50s freaking out because they can't keep shadows up with such a noob whm or blm or what have you. That's AFTER getting Ni, when you're able to cast one set of shadows under the cover of another. Imo, there's just no excuse for being that bad at your job at that point. If I can tank soldier crawlers at 39 (8-10 level gap) then a reasonably skilled ninja should be able to tackle saner targets without assistance.
Now yes, the game does have a strong emphasis on teamwork and every job can perform leaps and bounds ahead of their normal efficiency with good support from other party members, but if you're completely incapable of playing your job without support then you're just bad at the job.
Originally posted by DieselBoy09
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As far as timing the cast, the trick is to start casting just before the mob hits you. You can't be interrupted by a hit in the first 10% or so of your cast, and most mobs have a delay of exactly four seconds, so if you can time it so you get hit right after you start casting, the next hit will come right after you get shadows up. The timing is very precise, and sometimes it can be hard to do without slow depending on lag conditions, but there is a window where you can force ichi through 100%.
Watch the mobs, learn the rhythm to their attacks, and when shadows drop wait for the next beat before you start your cast instead of trying to recast immediately. Before 37 you may have to take a hit or two while you're waiting on recast, but it takes some pretty bad luck to put you in danger of death in that interval. Another thing to remember is that when mobs double attack, both attacks happen at the same time even if it takes a while for the second one to animate. So even though it shows the mandy or smithy landing its second attack in the middle of your cast, you won't be interrupted so long as the first hit was at the start of your spell.
And at 21, don't sweat it too much. You've probably only tanked for a handful of parties and might not have the timing down yet even if you knew about the trick to begin with. But I see career ninjas in the 40s and 50s freaking out because they can't keep shadows up with such a noob whm or blm or what have you. That's AFTER getting Ni, when you're able to cast one set of shadows under the cover of another. Imo, there's just no excuse for being that bad at your job at that point. If I can tank soldier crawlers at 39 (8-10 level gap) then a reasonably skilled ninja should be able to tackle saner targets without assistance.
Now yes, the game does have a strong emphasis on teamwork and every job can perform leaps and bounds ahead of their normal efficiency with good support from other party members, but if you're completely incapable of playing your job without support then you're just bad at the job.
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