My main job in Final Fantasy 14 is the ninja. It has a satisfying rotation. I like that I can occasionally dip into ranged combat. I like that I’m slightly faster than everyone. I like that I get a little bunny on my head when I mess up. It’s good fun.
I will, however, always be sad that the job turns from a swashbuckling rogue to a discount Naruto expy at level 30. What bums me out even more is that modders have been fixing a lot of these problems, but I can’t use or recommend them. The latest mod I must observe sadly through the looking glass is Laoqian‘s “Gunner” animation replacement, which replaces all of Ninja’s animations with cyberpunk mayhem.
This mod is absolutely rad. The ninja’s daggers are swapped for dual pistols, its regular melee combos cleverly turned into gun kata sequences. It replaces several skills with an arm cannon, the ninja’s water shurikens with a killer sniper rifle killshot, and ‘Suiton’—a blast of water that makes an enemy vulnerable to a trick…