So the almighty "Blink Tank" has fallen....kinda

[Aetheran]

I took a bubble shower, it went right through utsusemi as always and damaged me without removing any shadows.

[Kiyosuki]

See guys? Don't worry about it. Go with the flow of the wind like the real Ninja. XD

We now have a little more than one week now, until we find out wiether or not Ninja's, and all the jobs in general, will get something new themselves..

I really hope its a new self cast Ninjutsu. That Smokebomb idea on the bogus Skill list taken from a Japanese message board sounds great. Something you cast on yourself that raises evasion and raises critical rate (Since enemy you know..has trouble seeing you, so you hit more unexpectedly, and are harder to hit. Very Ninja like, and its been used in FF's before..though not quite the same way.)

Or a Job ability...of any kind! I'd love to have just...something in my Job ability menu thats unique to Ninja's. Even if its like..."jump up and down" its better than nothing. lol

[Bigbird]

Hmmm, After playing around last night, and trying to get some Experience points in Sky (Shrine of ru'Avita). I began to realize how ANNOYING this patch is ~.~

Basically, Golems spam several moves that not only do damage, that not only Give you Status Effects, but ALSO Remove all shadows >.< >.< >..< >.<

For any high level ninja going up there for EXP, lookout for 2 moves.

One move is Called Ice Rain or something to that effect, it does about 200 damage and removes EVERYONES Utsusemi shadows that is in melee range >.< >.<. You still have time to recast IN or ICHI since they ATk so slow but its sooooo anoying.

The second move (this is the deadly one which was pissing me off soo much last night) is called Thunder Break. Its an instant move that does about 300 damage, STUNS YOU AND EVERYONE AROUND HIM, AND REMOVES ALL YOUR F#%$ SHADOWS >.< >.< >.<

Between me and the War/NIN we were able to tank them Decently without dying, but no way a war/nin or a nin/war could solo tank them anymore, unless they have at least 2 stuners to stun after every Thunder Break (which the mob just loves to spam at the worst times >.<)

This patch makes me glad that i am 74 already but i still have 1 more long level to go. ; ;

Besides that most of the other AOE's were doing there normal effect, we will just have to discover with time which are the AOEs we have to lookout for now with time.

[Tikipiki]

Wow

BB passed me in levels ; ; I guess I need to start playing again lol

Tiki

[Bigbird]

Lol I am such a loser having 2 jobs over 72 ; ;

Anyway, I tried Tanking Lord of Onzono, besides his waterga 3 removing alll my shadows (as usual) now his whirlwind AOEs also removed every single shadow i had (and LoO isnt even that high level) My ninjutsu is capped (all my debuffs Stick and dont get resisted) so ya.... this sucks, gona lvl a new job now.

No club droped by the way.

[manga101]

hmm

seems like at hi level range NIN isnt great?

Im currently at NIN 58.. so far i have no problem yet..sitll same as usual..wondering what will happen post 60s


this prob means NIN is useless in Dynamis, HNMs, GODs?

[Zanar4]

do you think square is trying to take Ninja away from being a tank? and put it in the "enfeebeler" role it was intended as?

[Bigbird]

No dont misunderstand what i am saying, Nin is still very useful. Having a high level NIN is still awesome and you can still tank plenty of stuff. Its just anoying to tank Certain mobs, but not every mob has Utsusemi Removing AOE's so you still have plenty of chance to showoff that ninja tank power ^^

You can still even tank Weapons in Ro'meave etc, but you are just gona have to spam Utsusemi alot more and depend on your mages for Stun, and Cure more often. Finally whms will have something to do eh? ^^

As for Dynamis, an utsusemi nerf really doesnt effect this since Dynamis is all about Team work anyway.

As for Gods, there arent Many That NIN is used for to tank. The only god i have seen tanked by NIN is Genbu, but the Rest is ALL Paladin, so the nerf doesnt effect our ability to tank gods cause, we simply never do. ; ;

HNMs and BCNMs is where you will be used the most and although the nerf sucks, you are still a prefered tank for a big portion of the HNMs in the game. Sorry if i made it seem like we are useless cause that is definetly not true.

[manga101]

Torama in Onzono [Thanks for the offer, but I'll have to pass]

I've heard these are a pain to tank?

[Bigbird]

Tanking Toramas hasnt been changed because of the nerf, since toramas dont have physical AOEs anyway.

However,

They have 2 deadly skills one of them is a strong paralyze and the other is Silence, which cannot be blinked.

As long as you have a good WHM you'll be fine. They are Great exp, just make sure you bring a bard if you are on the low side. Also a RNG will speed things up tremendously, but you already know that

[manga101]

BigBird

thx for the tip..

im at 61 atm. yes my pt generally have NIN,RNG, THF

no brd.. /sigh

[manga101]

horror cloud and blood saber by bones takes all shadows..!! and bbubble showers dont? - almost same type of aoe