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New /ja - Futae (NIN Lv.77 Ability Delay: 3 min. Effect Duration: 1 min.)
Grants a bonus to your next elemental ninjutsu by expending two ninja tools.

New Traits:
Tactical Parry - Grants bonus TP when parrying an attack.
Mag. Burst Bonus - Improves magic burst damage

New Spell - Aisha: Ichi: NIN Lv.78
*Uses the ninja tool "Soshi".


Now someone find out what Aisha and Soshi mean in Japanese!

Edit: I hope Futae does more than double damage, but even if it is only double, I could see some big numbers on a maxed-out :San magic burst. I hope the Magic burst bonus is big too.

Edited, Jun 17th 2010 2:37am by AniRedMage

awesome, the only thing worth a sh*t is the tactical parry and even that is so so. The rest is crap. Aisha better be something hot...

If we get a new Dual Wield Tier at 80 (it's not a new trait, but "the degree of mastery increasing in stages thereafter" as you level as Square calls it), it would still be something. Let's pray and get those calculators and timers on monday/tuesday.

Otherwise, the magic burst / double-tool trick really will have to provide impressive results for it not to be a let down.

Out of my 2 75s on my Hume (NIN and DNC), this update is really telling me I should focus on my DNC ._.;

Look at NINJA's job traits in the game: Dual Wield. That's it. The community has discovered the tiers, i.e. the "stages" as square calls them. We might have a new tier, square hasn't mentioned any of those for 76-80. There might be a new tier of attack bonus for DRK and a new tier of dual wield for ninjas; all these things we'll have to wait to try and see.

I'm just holding on to the slim chance that ninja aren't really just getting parrying mastery, magic burst bonus and double-tools for those 5 levels.

Oh right, and Blade:Teki^2 and Aisha: Ichi. I'm not exactly holding my breath for those :P

This whole update reeks of SE trying to get SC and MB back, prob for Abyssa so whilst it does seem rather underwhelming it might turn out to be a nifty update after all......not holding my breath like >.>

Aisha: Ichi Could maybe mean a stun spell? Im just being hopeful. Knowing Se its gonna be Bind or something else thats useless. Atleast Nin didnt get as shafted as blu did lol

Conversation with JP friend:

her: Aisha is "sorrowful wheel"
(at least that's what it literally means.
Ai = Sadness, sorrow
Sha = wheel, car

me: that sounds consistent with gravity

her: Soshi is like "grass" basically
I agree sounds like gravity
my brain is conjuring little traps where the grass is tied together causing people to trip

me: woot


I guess Bind is also a possibility though, but the "wheel" aspect implies some degree of motion, i.e. "sad" + "wheel" --> "slow" + "motion" --> gravity I agree that stun is unlikely due to the cast time. Gravity would be pretty hot for solo situations.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vWihfifjeyg/TBDJDPCVRaI/AAAAAAAADXI/F0w3fTzWj2w/s1600/nin.jpg

Looks awesome at least! Looks like a self-buff. And doesn't look like tonko nor monomi combined. Could very well be reraise.

Edited, Jun 17th 2010 11:16pm by Deswolf

Could Aisha be the spell SE have been mentioning for years in fanfestivals?
the one that lowers NIN's enmity when casted, the NIN retains that lose enmity when the effect wears off.

All in all meh update.

the only way i see this being useful is if it didnt effect elemental ninjutsu like it says and instead it effected enfeebles. as in, it takes away two tools but slow -> slow2, blind -> blind2, para-> para2, etc.

im not sure on the numbers but i still dont think running the wheel 2 casts at a time, with san nukes or ni nukes, would outdamage normal DoT. it looks like it would only be good if you specifically geared for it, subjob and all, yet you still can only use it 33% of the time. seems useless.



woohoo. now you get 2tp back when you parry every 1/30ish attacks. @#%^ing pointless.

Magic burst bonus? really!?



reraise is too easy to get from gorgets, hairpins, scrolls, etc. hopefully its a self haste. anything else just seems disappointing. looking at the other crap Nin just got, it wouldn't surprise me if it was magic attack bonus. /frown

Futae is only supposed to boost your NEXT elemental ninjutsu, so its effect on the wheel should be minimal. To me it is obviously meant to encourage magic bursting, but who knows? For the 3 minute recast, I am expecting a good 800 damage, unresisted, unburst, and uninnin'd. If that's the case, we at least have another occasional hate spike.

The thing that I am looking forward to on nin is hitting lv80, then using my octave club.

For a brief period I will be able to do all manner of fun solo things.

NIN/DNC with Kraken Club is a pretty fun solo combo. I won't say it enables you to solo something you normally couldn't, but it's still fun. Very good for campaign.

People are complaining a lot about the NIN stuff in the update, but until we know what that spell is we really have no way of knowing how much better off we are. The rest of the stuff we got is pretty much garbage obviously... but this spell could be haste, some kind of epic enmity bonus or evasion bonus, who knows. Of course, it could also be something fail like reraise.

Edited, Jun 20th 2010 1:41pm by Lothiriel

just a note:

NIN/SAM 80

Sekkanoki, Self Skillchain > Futae, Self magic Burst.

Enjoy number.

but only as DD job it could be usefull, but i'll probably prefer /war still.

Like most ppl i only got nin for sub but heres hoping for ya...

Futae -> Utsusemi: Ni = 8 shadows

theres your Utsusemi: San :o

From the DAT mining thread:

THAT is Aisha?

Seriously...?

Aisha:Ichi!
Solidifying Ninja's role as a DD/Debuffer in parties since 2010! -Square

SE is proving again that they have no idea what they want us to do. New JAs/Traits that focus on magic, while leaving us off MAB gear, and adding a pointless new spell. I really want to be a career ninja, but they are not making it easy.

Surprised they were so stealthy about sneaking that change in there. Certainly welcome. I'd be even happier if the number stood out a bit more from the icon, maybe use a different color? But it's nice to have at any rate.

Has anyone noticed that there is a plus sign next to the "4" when you cast Utsusemi: NI? Might be a clue that Utsusemi: San is coming our way.