Reading forums elsewhere, one comment that has been brought up as this ?balances? blink-tanking as though it is over-powered as it is. Personally I reckon this is not true, but when people see blink-tanking going well they seem to think that it?s easy and brings in risk-free EXP.
However, there is a lot going on for the blink-tank and requires great concentration on their part as the slightest screwup puts not only the tank, but the rest of the PT as well. Transferring from the Ni set of shadows to the Ichi set has to be timed to perfection or else the NIN can be left without any shadows and potentially 30 seconds before the magic is available to use again. Never good.
Also, NINs generate much less enmity than the traditional PLD tank so the PT has to be slightly more as well. Ensuring that they hold off on their damage for slightly longer than they would for a PLD as the initial hate spike from Provoke, Shield Bash, Flash etc. isn?t there.
What?s to balance? NIN tank sounds like a perfect risk/reward ratio to me.
Then there are the comments that this is to encourage NINs to use their full assortment of spells.
These people either have been unlucky in only partying with sucky NINs or they haven't PTed with a NIN at all (in the grand scale of things the number of NIN tanks is low). Any good NIN tank will make use of a variety of spells, they don't simply cast Utsusemi and nothing else. My debuffs are vital in both hate generation and keeping me alive (a mob that is blind, slowed and paralyzed is going to have greater difficulty in hitting me) whilst my elemental magics, whilst lacking the potentcy of Black Magic, do decent damage generating more hate (and every bit of hate we get is important as mentioned above).
Too many ignorant/uninformed people commenting on issues they have a complete lack of understanding of really annoys me.
However, there is a lot going on for the blink-tank and requires great concentration on their part as the slightest screwup puts not only the tank, but the rest of the PT as well. Transferring from the Ni set of shadows to the Ichi set has to be timed to perfection or else the NIN can be left without any shadows and potentially 30 seconds before the magic is available to use again. Never good.
Also, NINs generate much less enmity than the traditional PLD tank so the PT has to be slightly more as well. Ensuring that they hold off on their damage for slightly longer than they would for a PLD as the initial hate spike from Provoke, Shield Bash, Flash etc. isn?t there.
What?s to balance? NIN tank sounds like a perfect risk/reward ratio to me.
Then there are the comments that this is to encourage NINs to use their full assortment of spells.
These people either have been unlucky in only partying with sucky NINs or they haven't PTed with a NIN at all (in the grand scale of things the number of NIN tanks is low). Any good NIN tank will make use of a variety of spells, they don't simply cast Utsusemi and nothing else. My debuffs are vital in both hate generation and keeping me alive (a mob that is blind, slowed and paralyzed is going to have greater difficulty in hitting me) whilst my elemental magics, whilst lacking the potentcy of Black Magic, do decent damage generating more hate (and every bit of hate we get is important as mentioned above). Too many ignorant/uninformed people commenting on issues they have a complete lack of understanding of really annoys me.
but NIN is and will always remain the best tanking class imho. A good NIN can take basically 0 damage, and with a THF can hold hate with little problem (hell, so long as any BLM/RNG hold back a bit a NIN doesn't even need TA to hold hate). I was in a PT today with a brilliant Ninja tank, the actual PT setup was NIN/WAR, RNG/WAR, THF/NIN, RDM/BLM, WHM/BLM and BRD/RDM. The RNG had first voke (quite dangerously too ;p) but the THF and NIN worked so quickly and so well together, that he only took 2 hits at most before the NIN had hate. Then on SC, the RNG would voke again and let off WS, followed by a SATA THF WS. With the RDM and BRD, and such little curing necessary, I did feel slightly unneeded ;p but I had full, or almost full MP at the end of every battle. With the high-damage SC and BRD helping things along, kills were swift and the exp was pretty good (about 4k an hour I think). I doubt SE will nerf NIN because having NIN gives a choice of tank rather than just PLD. I prefer NIN simply because they make my job easy ;p and WHM at least can conserve MP so much more effectively with them.
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