Hate Control and a few other questions

[Hyozan]

Been reading all these posts and I am a bit confused. Can THF control hate without the use of Fuidama? From what I gather Fuidama is just a combination of sneak+trick+ws to get huge damage. From what I read everyone is complaining about the Yokodama 'fix' because of the damage with the use of 1 tank not the ability to control hate.

Also If someone can post Sneak+Viperstrike ave damage and Trick+Viperstrike ave damage.

Question to THF/NIN out there, does this combination hold the daggers forwards like a regular THF would or backwards like a NIN dual wield on 1H katanas? Not that it will affect my decision to go THF/NIN but I think it would be cool to see them backwards^^

And how have invites been since the patch, any different?