Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Chris said:

Yeah I did Bozja and all the dungeons there and I don't know how to use Lost Actions because I just healed myself to stay safe from exp loss then others to help clear the fights.

Need to get to Zadnor before Endwalker.

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You just get Essence of Aetherweaver for 96% additional dmg and you're good, it's pretty cheap if you don't have any from the stuff you looted yourself, like 1k each or whatever on my server so you can buy a nice stack of 50 or so, it's RNG what you get but you'll usually get ~10aetherweaver which is plenty to do DR runs and what not. It's just nice overall since it goes faster anyway. There's more actions you can use to increase dmg further(cleric stance and shit) but honestly just the essence is enough to have a fairly smooth run if everyone did use one. Sadly most people don't.

Folanlron said:

They simplified Ninja a lot the same time they did the monk half-ass rework.

Ninja before was a total nightmare cause the Mudra system was so convoluted..

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They didn't really change how Mudras work that much though, the main change is making them GCD so you don't have to weave them which was horrible if you had bad ping, but you still have to do the same mudra order, in fact it's "worse" compared to say SB, because of the Kassatsu trait which forces you to use Hyosho Ranryu when before it was a Ninjutsu you didn't have to even bother learning. The class overall changed a lot but Mudras/Ninjutsus didn't change all that much I'd say. They haven't even removed the rabbit, which considering some other things it feels like they could have(Dancer can just add more steps if they mess up and new MNK EW system will give you a weaker Blitz that still awards of a token if you mess up).

Grizzlebeard said:

Unless it's changed, it was similar to pre-GL fix on MNK. You had to put in a bunch of extra effort and still be reliant on the stars aligning just to match similar levels of deeps from average SAMs.

I mean, you don't just play a class for its parses and there's a lot that is cool about NIN, the free pause button in open world (Self-Invis) for instance, but if you're having to work harder than others to produce the same result it eventually starts to wear thin.

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I wouldn't say you really have to work much harder, it's just weirdly balanced around the burst window where you have to shit out a lot of things quickly so until it's muscle memory it's annoying to play, while SAM is a lot more evened out so you never really have to go crazy. SAM does have its own quirks though since their rotation doesn't line up properly with raid buffs so you have to do some GCD dump stuff to re-align which depends on your SkS and can be further affected if you lose parts of a GCD from doing mechanics or what not, so you have some on-the-fly changes to your rotation, while Ninja is purely static.

But you won't beat a SAM on ingame damage meters regardless because you're not supposed to, Trick adds up so much raid damage NIN personnal dmg always is going to be lower than SAM. FFlogs will tell the story with rDPS but ingame meter if you want to be #1 you have to play SAM or BLM basically(assuming you play with other competent players, obviously with a bunch of retards you can be #1 on DNC, but that's not gonna feel good either).

Personally I like it at times but yeah I wouldn't main it, the burst windows are too annoying until you drill them perfectly. It's a great class for random mob killing like daily hunt marks and shit though cause Hide > Ninjutsu reset is busted as shit since you open every fight with double Raiton and just near instantly kill most standard mobs which is pretty hilarious. Hide is also nice at times to skip stuff while questing outside and stuff.

Aazrael said:

I had more trouble with samurai due to the kenki spending vs the big nuke. And having to time up the cool downs. But then again I'm just a noob doing normals and maybe an extreme or two. I have no grand plans on savage raiding so will play what fits me the best, which seems to change weekly.

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Yeah early on that's definitely an issue with spending too much kenki, but that's an issue with a lot of classes, using up ressources or using something and then figuring out you should have waited 1 or 2 GCDs instead, you can reduce that eventually once you're well used to the class and have some time to check stuff coming up rather than just reacting. Even then still happens, I'll still Hypercharge on MCH when Drill is coming up(shit sometimes I hypercharge then notice drill AND reassemble are coming up which is really bad). Happens most of the time if I'm focusing on mechanics and just braindead pressing buttons. MNK also I'll see perfect balance is about to come up, start the whole cooldown phase, and then press perfect balance right before bootshine and then I'm like "well fuck that's one bootshine lost".

Most people who do savage aren't anywhere close to 100% perfection either though. The DPS checks aren't that demanding. 60-70% will usually do the job unless you're trying to eek out 1st week clears(and if you are you're probably more in the 85-90% crew anyway). The more gear you have over the bare minimum, the easier it becomes. Like current savage with echo and 530 gear you can be ridiculously bad and still make the enrage timers.