anyone tried out blm/nin yet?

[aszid]

ok... yes, i know... it's not the ideal combo, so please don't flame about the IDEA....

now that i have said that... here's what i have found out from researching this possible combo:

at lvl 32 (my level) a blm/nin has +1 more int naturally than a blm/whm, after equipping a second wand that becomes +6 int more than blm/whm. i will lose roughly 40-50 mp from the loss of whm sub. which is not a huge deal to me.

all of the first tier elemental ninjitsu is lvl 15, so i will be able to use ninjitsu to weaken the mobs against whatever element i will be nuking with.

i will be able to blink myself, in case i am in a party that has a crappy tank. even if blink is gimped, it should buy enough time for the tank to regain hate.
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all i want to know... is if anyone has tried this out, and how it's worked out.

yes, i know i will lose a ton of utility by not being able to cure, but i would not use this combo in a party that needed me as a backup healer.

[Taga]

forget the elemental ninjutsu also, it will be resisted

[riceburner4540]

yes taga is right, your ninjutsu will almost never ever connect. as our enfeebling ability is based on enfeebling skill, a ninja's enfeebling and damaging abilities with ninjutsu comes from their ninjutsu skill. with nin subbed, the skill will be horribly low, so you'll never connect with any ninjutsu, so really...you're basically trading 40-50 mp for 6 int (ignoring spells and abilities a /whm gains).

[aszid]

d'oh...

well, thanks for the replies, i hadn't even thought about the ninjitsu being resisted yet. i guess that's what a forum is for though ^^

i'm just considering odd-ball possibilities for fun, not for my career. now that i have nearly all the ADV jobs unlocked it's hard not to wonder.

but hey! at least i wasn't asking about something that's 100% stoopid, like subbing war or sam. at least i did a little bit of thinking about it before i asked ^^ but overall... without the ninjitsu, the nin sub for blm would be pretty gimped.

[riceburner4540]

...hey...i wanted to sub sam w/ blm!!

before anybody flames me, its only for fun when i hit 75 and get black halo

[AtraposBLM]

yaaaaaay
someone was able to show a new player why an odd-ball sub was bad without calling him a noob!

And to think, they did this on a /nin question, and couldn't do it on a /rdm question.

[aszid]

umm... except i'm not a new player.... i've been playing since the NA PC release.

so there! :p

[Kirara]

black halo sucks on blm, blm can't use high D 1 hand staff
retribution is the bomb

[riceburner4540]

not bad....

still, i like how black halo looks ^_^

[AtraposBLM]

nice Kirara

[Coinspinner]

Heheh... I wanna get to 75 just to learn high level staff skills. ><

[Rico]

*Thinks about having two Ice staffs* That will be cool, only if I can buy them ;p

[Andry]

ice staff is 2 handed, you can't dual wield them :p

[Rico]

Damn ;/

[Taga]

You could put the second one up in your bazaar for 99 million gil to taunt all the poor BLMs