YOu know it kinda makes me laugh to see all these Rangers freaking out so much now that thier job will actualy take a bit of thought and tactics to perform. I mean damn imagine having to actualy think in order to perform ones job. As far as ninja goes I think it is realy crappy that SE once again has to nerf the job. However I do notice that all it says is that a player will lose some enimity with each shadow lost not hate completely.
I personaly prefer ninja tanks to Paladins. First off if your lvl 55+ your pretty certain that the ninja in your pt is at least some what of a skilled player since he/she made it this far, and if not ***** it's one less person to refresh (j/k) Paladins have it way too easy and most seem to have this whole "I AM A PALADIN, RESPECT ME YOU FOOL" atitude that really makes me sick (there are of course many exceptions to this rule) Paladins in atitiude reminde me too much of White Mages.
The fact that SE has decided to increase the amount of tools it is going to take in order to keep hate just seems (which lets face it, is probably all this does to the Ninja as a tank) pointless, the real thing I think that bothers me is all this seems to do in the long run is turn a lot of hard working Ninja into gil buyers in order to keep tools in stock or to lvl all the crafts required to make tools for themselves. Funny at least SE had the sense to anounce the bundling of Ninja tool before they added "Oh btw nerfed your job again and it's gonna cost you more. Have a wonderfull day."
So in closing I think I'd just like to say to all the Rangers out there. Suck it up! Nap times over, it could allways be worse you could be a Ninja.