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AA Ninja Buff
Out of the three builds for Ninja (Shuri, Ninjutsu, Sword), AA sword is the most underwhelming. It requires a handbook to be viable and is too squishy for a melee class. Other AA melee classes have skills to deal with the problems of being an AA melee class and I hope devs tweak the build for more survivability and make it easier to achieve decent damage.
One problem is that the damage calculations of the skills for AA ninja are pretty split. Instead of focusing on one or two of these, we'd have to invest on all to get decent DPS
AA dmg -> flowing blade
crit dmg -> flowing blade, flowing shadow heart, shadow warrior
ign def -> shadow warrior, ultimate chop
skill dmg -> flowing shadow heart, shadow warrior
I think three small changes that would help a lot damage-wise are:
1. Make shadow warrior crits ignore defense
2. Make shadow warrior scale with AA as well (if #1 is implemented, I don't think this is needed)
3. Switch flowing shadow heart to an AA so it procs effects that trigger on AA, currently only procs shadow warrior
4. Fix aoe range on flowing shadow heart, it doesn't seem to hit targets that are too close to you
Basically just getting rid of the need to invest into skill dmg and lowering the potential buff of investing on ignore defense.
As for added survivability, using swords already gives added survivability but I feel like it's still lacking since we have no control over dying unlike RMs and SBX. I do see what they wanted to do with Cicada in having it passive and have no trigger cooldown but I think having it manually triggered or passively triggered but with a cooldown would be more useful.
Some small changes I think would help add more survivability:
1. Add a weapon block skill for sword or have a passive chance of blocking attacks implemented into the sword skill that increases damage with swords
2. Give more max HP when wielding swords
3. Lengthen invulnerabilty of shadow leap
4. Have flowing shadow heart cancellable
I like that the Ninja playstyle requires us to play more sneakily but we need to have added survivability when already engaging. The most OP dmg buff we could get is have the fixed aspd removed but I can see why they removed that because of the shadow warrior burst. Maybe they could add a buff skill that temporarily breaks the fixed aspd, that would be nice I think, just so AA can function as breakers as well. Right now AA sword ninja doesn't excel in any game mode. If you're looking for DPS, both shuriken and magic are better and much safer. Utility-wise, magic is the best.
These are all based on my opinions and might or might not be the buffs we need but feel free to share your thoughts as well. Hoping we can get some AA ninja support because we were snubbed recently with the ninja cards they introduced.
One problem is that the damage calculations of the skills for AA ninja are pretty split. Instead of focusing on one or two of these, we'd have to invest on all to get decent DPS
AA dmg -> flowing blade
crit dmg -> flowing blade, flowing shadow heart, shadow warrior
ign def -> shadow warrior, ultimate chop
skill dmg -> flowing shadow heart, shadow warrior
I think three small changes that would help a lot damage-wise are:
1. Make shadow warrior crits ignore defense
2. Make shadow warrior scale with AA as well (if #1 is implemented, I don't think this is needed)
3. Switch flowing shadow heart to an AA so it procs effects that trigger on AA, currently only procs shadow warrior
4. Fix aoe range on flowing shadow heart, it doesn't seem to hit targets that are too close to you
Basically just getting rid of the need to invest into skill dmg and lowering the potential buff of investing on ignore defense.
As for added survivability, using swords already gives added survivability but I feel like it's still lacking since we have no control over dying unlike RMs and SBX. I do see what they wanted to do with Cicada in having it passive and have no trigger cooldown but I think having it manually triggered or passively triggered but with a cooldown would be more useful.
Some small changes I think would help add more survivability:
1. Add a weapon block skill for sword or have a passive chance of blocking attacks implemented into the sword skill that increases damage with swords
2. Give more max HP when wielding swords
3. Lengthen invulnerabilty of shadow leap
4. Have flowing shadow heart cancellable
I like that the Ninja playstyle requires us to play more sneakily but we need to have added survivability when already engaging. The most OP dmg buff we could get is have the fixed aspd removed but I can see why they removed that because of the shadow warrior burst. Maybe they could add a buff skill that temporarily breaks the fixed aspd, that would be nice I think, just so AA can function as breakers as well. Right now AA sword ninja doesn't excel in any game mode. If you're looking for DPS, both shuriken and magic are better and much safer. Utility-wise, magic is the best.
These are all based on my opinions and might or might not be the buffs we need but feel free to share your thoughts as well. Hoping we can get some AA ninja support because we were snubbed recently with the ninja cards they introduced.
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