Ninja

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The Ninja is a fast, hard hitter that can turn their enemies into healing items. Unmatched in strength growth, a ninja can be a hard hitter for the entire game. For all of the strength a ninja gains, they eventually lose pace with soldiers and merchants in attack power due to their main weapon type (gloves) not adding attack power on its own.

Equipment

The Ninja can equip cloth armors and glove weapons. Glove weapons are unique in that they all have an added status ability that has a chance to activate when a ninja attacks, and that they have no attack power on their own. Gloves can have a chance to inflict poison, curse, sleep, slow, confuse, soften or kill (instantly kills non-boss/player targets). Confuse and kill are currently restricted to unique gloves (Delicate Ninja Glove for confuse, Malevolent Gauntlet for kill).

Skill Trees

Skill Trees are the basis of leveling and customizing your character in NEStalgia. The skill tree menu unlocks at level 5 and at that point the player will be able to customize their character with available skill points. There are two ways to gain additional points:

• Gain an experience level, which grants one point.
  
• Progress through the plot of the game, which grants one point after completing the main quest connected to Verity's lighthouse and an additional point after completing the main quest connected to the Arctic's ice palace.
  

As of v1.68 this allows for a maximum of 30 points to spend.

Assailant Tree
Icon	Node	Level	Required Nodes	Max Points	Description	Image
~!*	Elementalist	-	-	3	+15% of quipped glove Enchant Power added to same Plus Element stat
	Ambush	5	-	2	+5% chance to surprise monsters in the first round of battle
	Spirit Fingers	-	-	3	+3% chance for equipped gloves effects to trigger when attacking
	Wisdom	5	Elementalist (2)	2	+1 to Max MP for every 2 levels
	Lucky	5	Spirit Fingers (2)	2	+1 to Luck for every 3 levels
	MagicKick	10	Wisdom (2)	1	Ability. Inflicts direct damage; Element set by caster's top Plus Element stat
	Combat Training	10	Wisdom (2)	2	+1 to Attack for every 3 levels
	Lone Warrior	10	Ambush (2)	3	+15% to physical damage when outnumbered by foes in battle
	Deft	10	Lucky (2)	2	+4% to Bonus Crit
	Extra Poison	10	Lucky (1)	2	+15% to the Rate of Shuriken
	Sagacious	15	Ability:MagicKick	2	+1 to Intelligence for every 3 levels
	Extra Powder	15	Combat Training (1)	3	+1 to the Damage Soft Cap of Kamikaze for every 2 levels
	Fair Fight	15	Lone Warrior (2)	3	-15% to damage received when outnumbered by foes in battle
	Bash and Buff	15	Deft (1)	3	+33% chance to gain a random status buff upon dealing a Critical Hit
	Vanish Power	25	Extra Powder (1)	2	+10% to the Power of Vanish
	Death Blow	25	Bash and Buff (1)	2	+25% to the damage of Critical Hits
	Double Strike	25	Vanish Power (2) or Death Blow (2)	3	+15% chance for regular attacks to hit with a second half-damage blow
	Finisher	25	Extra Poison (1)	3	+8% chance to Kill with attacks on Bleeding, Poisoned or Slowed foes

Assailant Tree Overview

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Elusion Tree
Icon	Node	Level	Required Nodes	Max Points	Description	Image
	Priority Healing	-	-	2	+50% chance to go first in battle when using Bottled Essence
	Enigma	-	-	3	+6% chance to dodge all targeted magic spells; only applies to spells
	Stamina	5	Priority Healing (2)	3	+1 to Max HP for every 2 levels
	Soul Eater	5	Priority Healing (2) or Enigma (2)	3	+15% to the ammount of HP stored in Bottled Essences consumables
	Quickness	5	Enigma (2)	3	+1 to Agility for every 3 levels
	NinjaNet	10	Stamina (2)	1	Ability. Inflicts the Slow status
	SmokeBomb	10	Stamina (2) or Quickness (2)	1	Ability. Allies are Vanished and attack first; lasts one round
	Bonus Decoy	10	Quickness (2)	3	+33% chance to deploy an extra dummy when using Decoy
	Barbed Nets	15	Ability:NinjaNet	2	+25% chance for NinjaNet to also inflict Bleed
	Disintegrate	15	Stamina (2)	2	+5% chance to inflict Blind on attacking foes
	Eschew	15	Ability:Smokebomb	2	+8% to Bonus Dodge when Vanished
	Moving Target	15	Quickness (2)	2	+5% to Bonus Dodge when using Evade and JumpKick
	Hidden Explosives	15	Bonus Decoy (1)	3	+20% chance for decoys to explode when KOed, damaging the attacker
	Retaliate	25	Disintegrate (2) or Moving Target (2)	2	+50% chance to counter with a half-damage blow after dodging an attack
	Sturdy Decoys	25	Hidden Explosives (1)	2	+1 to the HP of each dummy deployed by Decoy for every 2 levels

Elusion Tree Overview

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Abilities

Abilities are skills that the player can use both inside and outside of battle. These abilities will either be bought on the skill tree using skill points or will be learned automatically once the player hits a certain level.

Learned Automatically

Ability	MP Cost	Level	Description
Vanish	2	1	Overworld invisibility; In battle, the ninja vanishes (increased evasion rate; first strike) and damages a single target.
JumpKick	3	3	Power up for one round then deals normal damage and stuns a single target.
Evade	3	4	Absorb all targeted attacks on an ally; increases Bonus Dodge.
Essence	4	5	Damages a single target and creates a healing item if the target dies. Healing items can not be created from bosses, mini-bosses or players.
Decoy	12	8	Deploys dummy targets to draw attention away from one ally.
Shuriken	7	10	Inflicts minor physical damage to an enemy group with a chance to poison.
Pilfer	6	12	35% base chance to steal an item from the target's inventory.
Kamikaze	30	15	Kills the ninja and deals physical damage based on the difference between their HP at time of death and their max HP. The greater the difference, the greater the damage.
5-Point	20	25	Deals major damage to a single target after a 5 round countdown.

Learned from Assailant Tree

Ability	MP Cost	Level	Description
MagicKick	10	10	Inflicts direct damage based on element set by the caster's top Plus Element stat.

Learned from Elusion Tree

Ability	MP Cost	Level	Description
NinjaNet	9	10	Causes the slow status on an enemy group.
SmokeBomb	12	10	Allies are Vanished and attack first; lasts one round.