I was invited by Square Enix to check out FFXIV Dawntrail early, and here’s how NIN is changing as well as what I think it means for the future of the job!
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0:00 Intro
1:13 New Skills
3:18 More Info & My Thoughts
3:38 Tooltips
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Oh man, so many changes that I can barely….believe it!
Wait, I think you failed to mention the effects Bunshin seem to grant you at 3:24 in the background. Does it allow you to shoot two Mudras simultaneously?
Really missed opportunity to call it Kunai With Chain. I'm disappointed, SE.
Im so excited to play NIN. I recently fell in love with it leveling all the melee jobs as that'll be my role in my static and sorry reaper, NIN is here to stay it seems
i have started playing as ninja and seeing this change coming trough is a sick update to the class, keeping up timer has just been an annoyance and i look forward to the more modern MMO rogue style gauge mechanic on the armor crush/ aeolian edge and WAY more focus on weaving on burst windows, even if it gets more tricky it pays of 10fold
What does suiton look like now? If huton grants you the ability to trick is suiton the same or?
Enhanced Kassatsu not changing its symbol still pisses me off.
I'm not a fan of having to keep Level 76 in the back of my mind if I can do Hyosho or not.
Armour looks sick too 😍
These videos all have such a good layout, thank you so much!
Absolutely love all the ninja-ey stuff they've added. Really satisfies my ninja class fantasy.
So what happened to hyurajin? removed?
Sorry, I don't know if I missed you mentioning it, but did I see that Meisui is now ALSO transformed from another button? But the button will still also be there? Honestly it's on my backbar, so it will be nice if it does.
So, since huton is changed, hide in the prepull is the thing of the past too, right?
I LOVE it.. omg. KUNAI'S Bane!! big big fan so far. I love it..
Does TCJ still lock you in place?
Ninja won, I fell in love with it in the story job quests and they continue to work well with the job I'm very happy to play it
I am very excited for Ninja. I will probably have it as a fallback if I do not enjoy viper lol.
Curious to see how this plays out for me, as I had a very love and hate relationship with the original Huton gauge, lol.
Just giving me my 15% without needing to keep up Huton is enough QoL to carry an expansion for me, lol. But yeah this looks like they really kept what's fun but streamlined some of the rough edges.
Thank god they removed huton management. The worst part of the job now fixed. The guy who makes ninja is the goat for sure
Hey Rinon, question about buff interaction:
When you say Higi buffs the next Bava/Frog does that mean it's a one time thing and it disappears after?
I ask because of the way Ninki is generated during burst.
Mug/Doku will grant 40 Ninki, and then Meisui will grant another 50 (giving the one time buffed Bava effect). So just from battery abilities you will get 90/100 Ninki during burst giving you very little room for error if you want to save for the double buff on Zesho since you will in all likelihood not use Zesho until at least 5 gcds into burst: Hyosho->Ten-Chi-Jin (single weave spot for Meisui)-> another GCD (weave Zesho). You could be straight up unable to use the buff on Zesho if at any point you use the buffed Aoelian Edge which is going to grant you 15 Ninki placing you at 105/100.
THANK FUCKING GOD (for the Huton change)!
Huton was such a useless (faux) management ability. It doesn't require any meaningful thought if the job literally has an ability–Huraijin–that instantly applies the buff in case you, for some reason, fuck up the mudra. It's not a real challenge to your management skill if it has an instant mulligan.