[Vyuru]

I hate to admit it, but /NIN can be useful for decently geared WAR's with Great Axe. I only have WAR to Lv.40, but the last 10 level or so party leaders mostly asked for /NIN over anything else.

Yeah I see what you're saying, the ability to avoid damage IS nice after all, but I also shouldn't gimp my damage output because some party leader thinks /nin is the endall sub.


Also, if they ask me to go as /nin then they want me to tank, most often I'm the only tank, and even with really good gear, I can't hold hate as well as I'd like, basically I have to resort to using Warcry to hold hate. Now that could be due to a variety of reasons, maybe I missed alot, maybe the blm is overnuking, maybe the whm is tossing out a cure III when I'm 5 hp down, just whatever, I have to use Warcry to get hate back, and that is on a 10:00 timer. If I'm gonna tank, it's going to be as war/mnk, and not war/nin unless I have some kind of backup.

One thing I don't understand; how the heck are you landing acid bolts on WAR?

First you have to be a mithra warrior, then wear nothing but subligar.... j/k I honestly don't know, I'd say maybe about 1/3 of my bolts actually hit, but my marksmanship is abysmally low, my warrior is about 39 and marksmanship is below 50 skill. While warrior might have a low marksmanship skill, I did have 2 level 50+ warriors in Cape Terrigan who used acid bolts on the crabs def+ moves, they had little to no +racc gear on yet they hit at least 50% of the time, although I think they might have been eating sushi, not 100% sure though. When you think about it that's alot of tp, and it's a pretty decent hit rate for a D rank weapon.

(Aside: Yes, Shield Break is wonderful. But, why bother when all the well geared DD's are using sushi, and gimped DD's with outdated weapons munch on meat mithkabobs? Sturmwind is too addictive anyway.)

I don't know if I would use Shield Break, kinda depends on the mob, but even with sushi some mobs can just get this lucky streak of misses in, sure there will be times when 2x Sturmwinds would be better, but I think there are also times when Armor/Weapon/Shield Break would outweigh the benefits of more damage dealt to the mob, especially once I get Full Break and I can do them all!

And as Celeal said, Shield Break would for sure allow me to use meat foods and I think this is the way to go. Maybe my tp gain will be high enough that I get the chance to do two WS on the mob and I can toss out a Sturmwind or something.

I don't have much acc+ gear, but I was wearing acc+ 38.... When I use sushi and Armor Break at lvl 60+, I cannot see the difference too.

Just a couple of things here.

1) If Armor Break is the same level as an Acid Bolt, you probably wouldn't see any difference if anyone was shooting acid bolts. i don't know about you, but I have a thf in 95% of all the parties I form, I'm just used to seeing how a mob takes damage while under def down, could that have something to do with why you don't see a difference?

2) Could it be that the Break WS was resisted?

Huh, interesting little tidbit on wikipedia:

Shield Break was once regarded as one of the greatest weapon skills in the game until a patch nerfed it a few years back. Instead of simply deducting 40 points from the mobs evasion it would deduct a percentage that never scaled down as it does now.
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You have to kind of wonder if that's yet another reason that many warriors don't use a two handed weapon such as Gaxe.