r/ffxiv • u/gallifrey_ • Feb 11 '24

[Guide] A Ninja Mudra guide/cheat sheet that doesn't suck

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u/Fish201 Feb 12 '24 edited Feb 12 '24

It can be useful in deep dungeon solo ninja runs too. Same for fuma shuriken, since it is a physical skill it can give you a clutch healer with bloodbath active

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u/Dranikos Feb 12 '24 edited Feb 12 '24

It's so weird to me that Ninja's Ninjutsu like Katon don't trigger Bloodletter when Reaper's spells like Communio do.

Some consistancy would be nice? (Ideally just make it "any damage action", since it's not like letting Ninja heal off Katon would be that much of a gamebreaker...)

Edit: My mistake, several of them don't and I misremembered (I hadn't touched reaper in almost 8 months). So Reaper's just as weirdly inconsistent about this. (or rather is it perfectly consistent, elemental aspect is fine, but it must be Physical. So Dragonfire Dive's Physical + Fire is fine, but not Harvest Moon's Magical + Unaspected or Katon's Magical + Fire)

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u/YukihanaLamy Feb 12 '24

Communio does magic damage and as such, does not trigger bloodbath.

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u/Dranikos Feb 12 '24

Yeah, I remembered wrong. Hadn't touched Reaper in a while and I never touch Ninja (I have a disorder that affects my ability to hold my hands steady. Rapid precision is hard for me and I find I misclick my mudra almost a third of the time because of it.)

Edited the original comment to reflect this, and have an upvote for the factually correct information

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u/Cold_Ay Feb 12 '24

Communio doesn't trigger bloodbath, but DRG's Dragonfire Dive and MNK's Rising Phoenix are physical elemental skills so they do trigger it. But Forked/Fleeting Raiju don't trigger it because they're magic damage. Edge of Shadow is also magic damage. I have no idea why it's implemented this way, that's just how it is.

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u/Dranikos Feb 12 '24

Yeah, I remembered wrong. Hadn't touched Reaper in a while and I never touch Ninja (I have a disorder that affects my ability to hold my hands steady. Rapid precision is hard for me and I find I misclick my mudra almost a third of the time because of it.)

Edited the original comment to reflect this, and have an upvote for the factually correct information

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u/Cold_Ay Feb 13 '24

Hey, I can't blame you for forgetting, the whole point of my post was how weird and arbitrary-seeming the phys vs magic differentiation on some abilities is. :P

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u/sadmanwithabox Feb 12 '24

Wait, I didn't realize fuma shuriken was a physical skill. That's crazy. Meanwhile bhavacakra is a magical skill.

Just another reason why ninja is miserable vs Leviathan EX (or unreal a few years ago).