That term has no defense the proper term is "give respect to get respect". This earn thing is ridiculous.

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Nerf Ninja.

With everyone trashing on people in this forum you are very brave to come forward and say this. I also agree.

I am watching this server from ffxi endgame 2005 eyes. I have played nowhere else. So i tend to see thing others do not as well.

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Nerf Ninja.

come to me in game. better yet lets talk in discord.

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Nerf Ninja.

but i am not rude, you are.

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Nerf Ninja.

So you agree that you're posting nothing of value. Glad we got that covered. I really wish Petz would make an appearance more than just once every 3 months.

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This society is really tryin me, ain't no hide and seek
I hide to be far from anxiety, I need my space,
I need my privacy, I need some signs please,
You're all too loud you don't speak quietly, opinions violently.
Deft/Drop

You don't think blink was used for damage mitigation in the same way? Why even have a blink spell with Utsusemi around?

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Nerf Ninja.

I am more interested in what other people are saying.

I would gladly be the tank for all the forum rage so they can have their say. I am not the only one who notices a problem. The fix may be hate mechanics not properly duplicated it may be the adjustments you do not see.

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Nerf Ninja.

I think you could go as far as to just making blink as good as Utsusemi and that might actually balance things. But it sounds from what i heard there are errors for Nasomi server specifically that are not working like 2005. Focus on those TP fixes and hate generation fixes and maybe ninja will become less important to the player base. Less party crafting with everyone /nin including the casters.

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Nerf Ninja.

You're not tanking forum rage, you're just coming across as impossible to reason with. This is FFXI. You don't like it? That's fine. It isn't changing. Doesn't matter if you rally 2/3 of the server behind you on a "Stomp NIN" rampage, it still isn't changing. If you can't "Respect" that, then nobody can help you.

As far as emnity mechanics, the biggest problem I see is emnity caps lower here.... Alot lower.... The most precise math we could use in retails had capped emnity at 30,000 units of CE, and another 30,000 units of VE, for a combined 60,000 TE. I've done some of my own testing and here the cap is more like 3,000 CE and 3,000 VE for a combined 6,000 TE, like someone forgot a zero in their floats. I don't do the image hosting thing, not worried about proving it. I play by those values and it works out well for me. I've adapted, so has everyone else that takes tanking seriously (except that 1 guy....).

I'm not one to partake in meta mentality, that's for sheep, but the suggestions you've made, as well as the points you've attempted to make, are ridiculous. You're inability to step back and see that, is pretty rude, and disrespectful. Nobody is reinventing the wheel because you say so. Feel free to go make your own mmo though, good luck.

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!!! Surprise !!!
~not a noob~

Dual wield. I’m using a second weapon for an accuracy bonus on my rng. Because my archery merits are still gimp and I’m not using my vulcan’s. SE tested the gameplay balance over and over again and found that there are ways to complete content with unconventional setups that don’t require a specific (sub)job, and that there are ways to keep the game challenging to those who use nin. Removing utusemi would reduce the number of job configurations that can complete content. It just makes the game several orders of magnitude harder and disregards the range of roles that are available to the player. And buffing blink to be as good as utsusemi will turn this game into a joke, reducing the game’s longevity, not enhancing it. Blink bands were a Maat fight novelty when I played retail.

The people here, for the most part, are on board with the fundamental mimesis of this game vs. retail, with departures from that mimesis that help with game challenge and longevity. Your opinion appears to be driven mostly on personal preference for doing things with more constraints. That’s okay. You can do that here, but you aren’t getting far with your alternative facts about what nin meant to SE and how they responded to the player base. To use your analogy, you’re tanking fine, but you’re not doing any damage. Probably because you hit the rage timer. Log out and play something else, or start your own server with tweaked blink parameters. I might try it out. For the lulz. As for a server without utsusemi, I’m not interested. I tier3 craft my own shihei. I like doing that. I don’t get to do much else with woodworking since the rng buff.