What's with all the noob ninjas in WOTW?

I think it's because with a very basic ninja build with only 2x weapon damage inheritables you can eat WotD alive. In WotW you need to basically use your throwables like melee weapons, positioning yourself properly, going for rear damage wherever possible, having the right set bonuses, getting good accessories and other effects to boost damage %, carefully manage LW and omnyo to see you through the level and most importantly, not using your ninja shit as your default damage. I have a pretty good ninja build but the majority of the time I use my melee weapons. I only use the ninja stuff in certain situations like when I get mobbed. There's more depth to a properly made ninja build that is easy to miss. Like having pierce guard on your equipped ranged weapon and shuriken throwing speed up. You can rapidly spam the shurikens to break guard while still getting damage in, then run behind with storms to wipe them out. You don't see this much in WotW because in WotD it's massive overkill, so people crush WotD and roll into WotW with the same build. I don't know what you are talking about with LW builds either. With my ninja build I can change absolutely nothing, but equip an extraction talisman and use the bat spirit and manhandle everything in WotW. It's absurdly overpowered, a properly geared critical LW build in WotW trivialises the game.

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