Ninja (FFXI)  

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Job Description Spells and Abilities Job Abilities Job Traits Two-Hour Abilities Spells Weaponskills Defensive Skills Magic Skills Sub-job Combinations Merits Artifact and Relic sets Other Info

Job Description

Slipping quietly through the shadows, the Ninja uses their naturally high evasion and mastery of Ninjutsu to become a nearly untouchable foe to any who confront them.

Attainable upon completion of Ayame and Kaede.

Spells and Abilities

Job Abilities

Job Abilities are activated abilities unique to a specific job that enhance job performance in some way. This can include, but is not limited to, increasing armor or damage for a short time, initiating a special attack or triggering a party buff.

Level	Name	Recast	Duration	Effect
40	Innin	00:05:00*	00:05:00	Reduces enmity and impairs evasion. Grants a bonus to accuracy, critical hit rate, and ninjutsu damage when striking target from behind.
40	Yonin	00:05:00*	00:05:00	Increases enmity and enhances "Ninja Tool Expertise" effect, but impairs accuracy. Improves evasion and reduced enemy's Critical Hit Rate when in front of target.
75 Merit	Sange	00:20:00	N/A	Consumes remaining shadow images to perform ranged attacks. Requires Shurikens.

• Innin and Yonin share recast timers

Job Traits

Job Traits are passive abilities that are always active for your job. Job Traits often boost stats, increase mp regeneration, or add resistances to status effects.

Level	Name	Description
5	Stealth	Makes aggresive creatures less likely to notice you.
10	Dual Wield	Gives the ability to wield a one-handed weapon in each hand and reduces combined delay by 10%.
10	Resist Bind I	Grants increased Resistance to bind spells.
15	Subtle Blow I	Reduces the amount of TP gained by enemies when striking them.
25	Dual Wield II	Allows you to equip two weapons. Delay of both weapons reduced by 15%.
30	Resist Bind II	Grants increased Resistance to bind spells.
30	Subtle Blow II	Reduces the amount of TP gained by enemies when striking them.
45	Dual Wield III	Allows you to equip two weapons. Delay of both weapons reduced by 25%.
45	Subtle Blow III	Reduces the amount of TP gained by enemies when striking them.
50	Resist Bind III	Grants increased Resistance to bind spells.
60	Subtle Blow IV	Reduces the amount of TP gained by enemies when striking them.
65	Dual Wield IV	Allows you to equip two weapons. Delay of both weapons reduced by 30%.
70	Resist Bind IV	Grants increased resistance to bind spells.
75	Subtle Blow V	Reduces the amount of TP gained by enemies when striking them.
75 Merit	Ninja Tool Expertise	Occasionally allows the use of ninjutsu without consuming tools.

Two-Hour Abilities

Two-Hour Abilities are job-specific active abilities with a cool down timer of two hours. These are often incredibly powerful abilities, but often have adverse effects as well such as depleting an MP pool or dealing physical damage to the player.

Level	Name	Recast	Duration	Effect
1	Mijin Gakure	02:00:00	N/A	Sacrifices your life, with no XP penalty, to do massive damage to the enemy. Will not inflict weakness when Raise is used.

Spells

Spells are magical effects cast by the player at the cost of MP or reagents with a multitude of results. Beneficial spells can be cast on party members to boost stats or restore health and damage dealing spells can be cast on mobs with devastating results.

Level	Name	Recast	Cast Time	Effect
9	Tonko: Ichi	00:00:30	00:00:04	Uses the ninja tool "Shinobi-Tabi". Lessens chances of being detected by sight.
12	Utsusemi: Ichi	00:00:30	00:00:04	Uses the ninja tool "Shihei". Creates shadow images that each absorb an attack directed at you.
15	Suiton: Ichi	00:00:30	00:00:04	Uses the ninja tool "Mizu-deppo". Inflicts Water damage and lowers Lightning resistance on an enemy.
15	Doton: Ichi	00:00:30	00:00:04	Uses the ninja tool "Makibishi". Inflicts earth damage and lowers Wind resistence on an enemy.
15	Huton: Ichi	00:00:30	00:00:04	Uses the ninja tool "Kawahori-ogi". Inflicts wind damage and lowers Ice resistence on an enemy.
15	Raiton: Ichi	00:00:30	00:00:04	Uses the ninja tool "Hiraishin". Inflicts thunder damage and lowers Earth resistence on an enemy.
15	Katon: Ichi	00:00:30	00:00:04	Uses the ninja tool "Uchitake". Inflicts fire damage and lowers Water resistence on an enemy.
15	Hyoton: Ichi	00:00:30	00:00:04	Uses the ninja tool "Tsurara". Inflicts ice damage and lowers Fire resistence on an enemy.
19	Kurayami: Ichi	00:00:30	00:00:04	Uses the ninja tool "Sairui-ran". Blinds an enemy.
23	Hojo: Ichi	00:00:30	00:00:04	Uses the ninja tool "Kaginawa". Slows an enemy, reducing their attack speed.
25	Monomi: Ichi	00:00:30	00:00:04	Uses the ninja tool, "Sanjaku-Tenugui". Grants the caster the effect of sneak.
27	Dokumori: Ichi	00:00:30	00:00:04	Uses the ninja tool "Kodoku". Poisons an enemy.
30	Jubaku: Ichi	00:00:30	00:00:04	Uses the ninja tool "Jusatsu". Paralyzes the enemy.
34	Tonko: Ni	00:00:50	00:00:01.5	Uses the ninja tool "Shinobi-Tabi". Lessens chances of being detected by sight.
37	Utsusemi: Ni	00:00:45	00:00:01.5	Uses the ninja tool "Shihei". Creates shadow images that each absorb an attack directed at you.
40	Doton: Ni	00:00:45	00:00:01.5	Uses the ninja tool "Makibishi". Inflicts earth damage and lowers Wind resistence on an enemy.
40	Katon: Ni	00:00:45	00:00:01.5	Uses the ninja tool "Uchitake". Inflicts fire damage and lowers Water resistence on an enemy.
40	Huton: Ni	00:00:45	00:00:01.5	Uses the ninja tool "Kawahori-ogi". Inflicts wind damage and lowers Ice resistence on an enemy.
40	Suiton: Ni	00:00:45	00:00:01.5	Uses the ninja tool "Mizu-deppo". Inflicts Water damage and lowers Lightning resistance on an enemy.
40	Raiton: Ni	00:00:45	00:00:01.5	Uses the ninja tool "Hiraishin". Inflicts thunder damage and lowers Earth resistence on an enemy.
40	Hyoton: Ni	00:00:45	00:00:01.5	Uses the ninja tool "Tsurara". Inflicts ice damage and lowers Fire resistence on an enemy.
44	Kurayami: Ni	00:00:45	00:00:01.5	Uses the ninja tool "Sairui-ran". Blinds an enemy.
48	Hojo: Ni	00:00:45	00:00:01.5	Uses the ninja tool "Kaginawa". Slows an enemy, reducing their attack speed.
75 Merit	Katon: San	00:00:60	00:00:02.5	Uses the ninja tool "Uchitake". Inflicts fire damage and lowers Water resistence on an enemy.
75 Merit	Suiton: San	00:00:60	00:00:02.5	Uses the ninja tool "Mizu-deppo". Inflicts Water damage and lowers Lightning resistance on an enemy.
75 Merit	Huton: San	00:00:60	00:00:02.5	Uses the ninja tool "Kawahori-ogi". Inflicts wind damage and lowers Ice resistence on an enemy.
75 Merit	Raiton: San	00:00:60	00:00:02.5	Uses the ninja tool "Hiraishin". Inflicts thunder damage and lowers Earth resistence on an enemy.
75 Merit	Hyoton: San	00:00:60	00:00:02.5	Uses the ninja tool "Tsurara". Inflicts ice damage and lowers Fire resistence on an enemy.
75 Merit	Doton: San	00:00:60	00:00:02.5	Uses the ninja tool "Makibishi". Inflicts earth damage and lowers Wind resistence on an enemy.

Weaponskills

Weapon skills are abilities that become available when a player has gained 100+ TP while damaging a mob with their weapon. All weapons, with the exception of Thrown and Instruments have their own set of weaponskills. Weaponskill availability is dependent on a player's skill level with the weapon as well as the weapon itself.

Combat Skill	Skill Rating	Level 37	Level 60	Level 75
Katana	A-	114	203	269
Throwing	A-	114	203	269
Dagger	C+	105	190	230
Marksmanship	C	105	190	225
Sword	C	105	190	225
Great Katana	C-	105	190	220
Archery	E	94	171	200

Defensive Skills

Defensive Skill	Skill Rating	Level 37	Level 60	Level 75
Evasion	A-	114	203	269
Parrying	A-	114	203	269

Magic Skills

Magic Skill	Skill Rating	Level 37	Level 60	Level 75
Ninjutsu	A-	114	203	269

Sub-job Combinations

Warrior - Offers the most balanced offensive capabilities as well as Provoke which is an instrumental job ability while tanking as a NIN. The most commonly used sub job for experience point parties.

White Mage - A useful subjob while soloing, access to Cure, Barspells, and (at higher levels) Stoneskin.

Red Mage/Black Mage - The Magic Attack Bonus from these two subjobs largely increases the damage of elemental ninjitsu spells. After attaining the Ni elemental ninjitsu a NIN using either of these sub jobs becomes a powerful damage dealer (at the cost of gil/ninjitsu tools).

Ranger - Used with Sharpshot, Barrage, and the Slugshot weapon skill this is a viable (but not typically sought after) damage dealer. Reaches its peak effectiveness at level 60 (and higher) due to the accuracy and range accuracy bonuses from RNG.

Dark Knight - An effective tanking sub job on some high level HNM's, but not commonly sought after for experience point parties.

Merits

When you reach level 75 in any job you can begin to "Merit" that job along with attributes that will carry over to all your other jobs making it possible to make yourself even more versatile through new spells abilities and upgrades on other attributes, abilities, and spells

Group 1

Name	Description
Subtle Blow Effect	Each upgrade to this trait will increase it's effectiveness by +1.
Doton Effect	Each upgrade to this skill increases the damage dealt by 2 and the Resist Down duration by 2 seconds.
Huton Effect	Each upgrade to this skill increases the damage dealt by 2 and the Resist Down duration by 2 seconds.
Hyoton Effect	Each upgrade to this skill increases the damage dealt by 2 and the Resist Down duration by 2 seconds.
Katon Effect	Each upgrade to this skill increases the damage dealt by 2 and the Resist Down duration by 2 seconds.
Raiton Effect	Each upgrade to this skill increases the damage dealt by 2 and the Resist Down duration by 2 seconds.
Suiton Effect	Each upgrade to this skill increases the damage dealt by 2 and the Resist Down duration by 2 seconds.

Group 2

Name	Description
Sange	Consumes shadows in order to preform ranged attacks, does consume throwing ammo. Each additional upgrade to this skill reduces the recast timer by 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
Ninja Tool Expertise	This Job Trait allows the occasional use of Ninjutsu spells without consuming a tool. Each additional upgrade to this trait increases the frequency activation by 5%.
Doton: San	Tier 3 elemental Ninjutsu spell. Each additional upgrade to this spell increases Magic Accuracy and Magic Attack Bonus by 5.
Huton: San	Tier 3 elemental Ninjutsu spell. Each additional upgrade to this spell increases Magic Accuracy and Magic Attack Bonus by 5.
Hyoton: San	Tier 3 elemental Ninjutsu spell. Each additional upgrade to this spell increases Magic Accuracy and Magic Attack Bonus by 5.
Katon: San	Tier 3 elemental Ninjutsu spell. Each additional upgrade to this spell increases Magic Accuracy and Magic Attack Bonus by 5.
Raiton: San	Tier 3 elemental Ninjutsu spell. Each additional upgrade to this spell increases Magic Accuracy and Magic Attack Bonus by 5.
Suiton: San	Tier 3 elemental Ninjutsu spell. Each additional upgrade to this spell increases Magic Accuracy and Magic Attack Bonus by 5.

Artifact and Relic sets

Artifact	Artifact +1	Relic	Relic +1
Ninja Hatsuburi	Ninja Hatsuburi +1	Koga Hatsuburi	Koga Hatsuburi +1
Ninja Chainmail	Ninja Chainmail +1	Koga Chainmail	Koga Chainmail +1
Ninja Tekko	Ninja Tekko +1	Koga Tekko	Koga Tekko +1
Ninja Hakama	Ninja Hakama +1	Koga Hakama	Koga Hakama +1
Ninja Kyahan	Ninja Kyahan +1	Koga Kyahan	Koga Kyahan +1
Anju & Zushio		Koga Sarashi

Other Info

• Ninja Equipment Guide
• NIN/RDM|BLM 101: FAQ and Strategy
• Ninja FAQ v2 - Links to common topics/questions