Utsusemi: San

I never saw that happen before the gimp. However I did see AOE physical moves wipe all shadows and deal dmg back then.

i do not profess to tell the future, but i could see another 3 shadow utsusemi happening. less likely IMHO would be a 4 or 5 shadow on a ridiculously long recast timer

Seethers have a TP move that gives like 20 shadows or something
As for the spell i highly doubt we will see San but if they did make this spell i can see SE making it share timers with Ni or something.

Yeah I think it can hit up to 30 something shadows. Once accidentally tried to duo one and it used that move and as soon as the shadows went down it did it again...

first time i experienced it or at least remember i was with my npc doing that quest when cap was still on ... sam/dnc doesnt so much when thing puts up dozens of shadows...

could also mean less loss of enmity which goes along with the loss of shadows, or quicker cast time or recast time.

What year are we talking here? I'm talking 2004-ish where if you get hit by AoEs, it'll either take 1 shadow or 2. I was a newbie back then though, so I might be wrong...but yeah, it was later then they adjusted it I believe.

Idk. I started back in like ja 04. Not long after PC release. Back then you couldn't take more than one shadow. It was wipe and dmg or 1 from what I remember.

actually to tell u the truth having an item in which enhances usu altogether (making it +1 shadows) would be more broken then giving an entirely different spell (usu: san) at least with a new spell SE is allowed to custom the spell timer making it difficult to pull of while being targeted by a mob.

Speculation: i think SE will implicate utsusemi: San somewhere between 85-99 but the timer to cast and recast timer will be so great that it will be hard to pull off. it will be something like u can cast before a battle or an emergency blanket type of spell, that being said i feel that the enhance utsusemi on the af3 boots increase spell resistance interruption to make it possible to cast san within a battle setting being hit but the recast timer will still be alot so you wont be able to utsusemi roll.

making the enhancement on the boots +1 shadows dosent seem very likely to me because it would completely brake ichi & ni... ichi now being 4 shadows and ni being 5, with there low timers u can completely shadow tank anything that dosnt attack multiple times in a strike round basically with your eye close no effort at all

Just finished my boots. Enhanced Utsusemi is Perfect Dodge for Ninjas.































jk

With the garbage SE has given NIN in the last few updates, Enhances Utsusemi could just be "Gain 5 TP for every shadow loss" or something. An extra shadow would be nice and the "4+" icon certainly points towards this but I'm not holding my breath.

That sounds more like an augment than an enhance. But that's just me

5tp for every shadow lost would be pritty hot regardless

Sorry then, 1 TP >.> Don't want to give you false hopes of something good.

why do people keep using this analogy? they are synonyms....

Because synonyms don't mean the same thing. But more importantly it's how SE uses the words in reference to gearing. It's part of the whole reason the even added augment when everything before used to just say enhance.

In FFXI, since the update about a year ago they changed a lot of "Enhances" to "Augments". There is a difference.

Enhances boosts the effects and/or gives the trait.
Augments boosts the effects or adds different things to the trait, but doesn't give you the trait.

Maybe but SE needs has always used them to note different effects
ie: PLD af head has enhances cover, covering magic
AF2 body augments coverting some damage taken to mp

I know this is ninja were talking not pld. It was just the first example i thought of

Anyway, it's a boost, not a new thing add to utsusemi. lets wait till someone got the feets to test ! :3

A friend of mine just came up with a good idea for what the feet boost could be... random chance of not takeing up a shadow when you get hit.
Might be a bit much but it sounds perfectly viable to me.

It could be a lame thing like no enmity loss when shadows are taken.

IMO they need to add it with a larger recast then Ni and Ichi. With all of the "New" and some of the old HLNM and normal mobs, shadows are eaten like candy at the Wonka factory. Mandies and many other mobs now have double attack and triple attack and Eva is getting less and less dependable on. As with putting it in long ago may have broke the game, now it doesn't seem like adding it will break the game seeing how most of what Ninja gets has be speared out between the other support dd jobs.