Comments | rukenshin: How my NIN works..

rukenshin

How my NIN works..

Aug 11, 2005 19:26

16 times now I've been asked to explain/tell/show how I do this by different people over the last month.. Apparently what I do has given some really good results :D.. But it's incredibly difficult to describe it all in tells, and even in a PM.. So, I just decided I'm going to post it all here and whenever I'm asked about it again I'll just /point ( Read more... )

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pingpongwww August 12 2005, 03:33:25 UTC

alot of ppl do a ton of switching for nin, personally I don't know how you get the inventory to do all that is pretty amazing in and of itself. I thought you may be interested in this though if you use windower, allows you to do multi-line macros, maybe save some space on that pallet http://ffxi.archbell.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=579

rukenshin August 12 2005, 21:23:13 UTC

Usually I'm 58/60 at best when I bring my setup for exp PTs/HNMs ; ;.. More often then not I'm 59/60 or 60/60 though. ><

But I <3 tool bags. :)

Read through that post in the link, and those macros look pretty awesome.. I'm not too great with the coding or whatever it is it says that I would need to do though^^;.. So not too sure if I could get it to work right even if I wanted to, lol.

Thanks for the link though, I'll see if I can try it out this weekend. :D

mysticspyrall August 12 2005, 07:07:54 UTC

you and your nin are my new best friends ^^ thanks, mad props and all that ^^

tirnan August 12 2005, 07:33:50 UTC

Good reading while at work Ruuuuke! Thanks^^

rukenshin August 12 2005, 21:18:36 UTC

Hey Tirnan :D.. Don't see ya around too much now, how've you been doing?

aiyahseraph August 12 2005, 16:19:59 UTC

*gives Rukenshin a portable changing room* I'm glad you put the effort to making the best out of NIN.

rukenshin August 12 2005, 21:35:07 UTC

:D

/bow

mysticspyrall August 12 2005, 18:00:43 UTC

quick question, is there any lvl where I should be using enmity gear full time? I am currently 54 and find it a lot easier just to wear my eris/mermaid ring all the time, but i've been wondering if maybe I'm taking too much away from my eva by doing so. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

rukenshin August 12 2005, 21:34:16 UTC

It's really up to you.. If you find that you're not evading enough and it's making your blink tanking more difficult, then you could sub in some evasion gear for the enmity instead and then just macro the enmity into provokes or whichever is easier for you.

I kind of came to doing this the same way myself.. In my static on NIN we would exp off IT++ mobs that would rarely miss, and wearing too much enmity gear would make tanking more difficult, and in the long run made my hate holding worse if I got hit.. At the same time though, the people in my static were all decked out in the best DD gear (rich LS friends, lol), so not using some type of enmity would make me a leech NIN that couldn't hold hate... So, I just decided to sub in evasion instead, and put enmity gear in macros for when I need it. It made tanking easier, and I held hate fine. :)

I first did that around level 64, and from there on I just added onto it and developed it more until it came to where it is at now.. As I described in this post.^^

mysticspyrall August 13 2005, 02:42:32 UTC

So a good solution would probably be to just macro in enm for voke/ws? Because while I do enjoy getting HoT (Hate over Time... yeah I made that up >.>) I like to keep a loose Hate control. But I also realize that this is pre-sidewinder and the like, so I'm still kinda worried -_-;; Oh well, time will tell... one more question

Would it be feasible to macro in Haste gear after my utsusemi cast? I read somewhere the you don't have to wear it full time to get the minus from your timer, just at the beginning of the cast. I'm thinking about macroing in a quick belt (speed belt? I wish...) and my fumas after the casting of utsusemi. I realize I won't get the benefit of haste for my elemental ninjitsu, but I try to go slowly with that anyway, in order to develop tp. Good idea? Bad idea?

rukenshin August 13 2005, 17:01:48 UTC

Which ever method you're more comfortable with..

Originally I tried to macro enmity into provokes, but it didn't work well for me.. Especially since the amount of enmity gear I had built up fast.

So I just made separate macros.. One or two that changed me into enmity gear, followed by my original provoke macro, and then another one or two that changed me back to normal gear.

And yes, you don't need to wear haste gear full time to get the effect on your Ni recast timer. You only need to have the haste equipment equiped when you finish casting the spell. However, if you equip it when you start casting the haste will apply for how long it takes to cast the spell as well as the /recast, so I recommend that over anything else. Faster cast = less interuptions.