Ninjutsu Spell ideaFollow

Just an idea I had last night, thought I'd toss it out here. I figure that now that the level cap is almost to the maximum, it wouldn't be overpowered to give Ninja some form of self-targeted status curing ability.

Kyukaku: Ichi (Nin lvl 65, Fire Based spell, self target only)
Uses the Ninja Tool Shinchū Kappu (Goldsmithing), removes one status ailment (can remove Blindness, Poison, Plague, Virus, Paralysis, Max MP down, Max HP down, Amnesia, Stat-down effects or black magic spells like Burn, Shock and Drown, has a slight chance of removing Doom effect). Grants a Regen effect which enhances in potency and duration with every Status ailment cured through Kyukaku (up to 3 times).

Kyukaku: Ni (Nin lvl 93, Fire Based spell, self target only)
Uses the Ninja Tool Shinchū Kappu, cures two status ailments (same as Ichi version). Grants a Regen effect (larger HP/tick return, stacks with Ichi version, enhances in potency and duration as per Ichi version).

Edited, Aug 26th 2011 1:29pm by GailC

I believe they already use caltrops (makibishi) for Doton: Ichi and Ni. I like the idea of a gravity spell though, perhaps using Bola-type tools to snare the target's legs and reduce movement speed.



I'm divided on how best to implement nunchucks, because I think it would be quite fun to see in the game. I like the idea of making them a staff, but I think they would be better classified as a club, since it would be possible to dual wield them IRL. However, I think they would work best mechanically if they operate like a hand to hand weapon, since I think the benefit of nunchucks would be that they can be transferred from one hand to the other very easily, allowing for two attacks with a slightly higher delay in between, much like hand to hand works. Its sort of like how Kama type weapons use Katana mechanics in FFXI (reverse gripped, uses Katana skill, Nin exclusive) when it would more accurately be classified as an axe-type weapon, or even a class of weapon all their own, one-handed scythes. Because it makes more sense for Ninjas to be running around with kama-type weapons than dark knights, I think they did the best thing and just made them katanas.

So in the end, while I think Staff is the simplest answer (two handed blunt weapon), and Club is the truest answer to life in terms of the actual weapon itself (baton swung to cause blunt trauma), mechanically I think they work best as Hand to Hand weapons (equipped in primary slot but uses both hands to wield, increases the delay of attacks but attacks mutiple times rapidly in succession when an attack is made, etc.).

Make them Mnk/Nin exclusive as well. The only thing I don't like about making them Hand to Hand, though, is that you can't dual wield them.

Yes, it would.

The fact that it requires a subjob choice to gain that ability is the entire point. Go NIN/DNC if you want, but that means you can't be NIN/WAR and lose out on offensive options.

NIN's Mythic weapon is the sickle/chain

Nagi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusarigama

In the case of Monomi, there was a reason in favor of adding it: NIN already had Invisible through Tonko. An ability to remove status ailments from yourself is not in the same situation as Monomi/Sneak. It might be if NIN already had some kind of spell or ability to heal itself. But it doesn't.

Meanwhile, we could make the case that there are good reasons against adding an ability for NINs to remove status ailments from themselves: doing so would hurt the demand for jobs which fill the role of support.


I would consider a spell that behaves more like Utsusemi to be more in line with that vision of NIN. The spell would be a self buff that acts as a TP move based status ailment "shadow". When a mob does a TP move that inflicts status ailments, all status ailments from that one TP move are absorbed by the "shadow", and the buff goes away.

Curing doesn't really seem like something a Ninja would do. I think the idea is that a NIN just doesn't get hit. So I like the second suggestion better, although it seems almost too much like Utsusemi, and kinda bland to be honest.

How about a spell that works almost like the reverse of the WHM spell sacrifice, where if a NIN gets hit with a status infliction, the use of this spell can transfer that status (back) to an enemy target. Success rate would depend on Ninjutsu skill, and if the attempt to transfer fails (e.g. because of low skill/enemy immunity) then the status infliction remains on the NIN. It's not as powerful as the suggestions you made (it wouldn't work on stun or terror, obviously), but I think it's probably more realistic, and could give rise to some interesting strategies.