Quote from Rydian;1235430:
And I'm waiting to see how you managed that in an "easy" manner.
Alright, let's break this down one by one.
I cannot emphasize that I haven't ranked fighter enough, I'm still missing like 160 Will, which will now take fuck ton of AP to cap (and work).
With that being said, I'm missing big chunk of potential damage for shurikens.
Strength, on the other hand, isn't that much of a grind. I'm at r9 engineering and not ranking for now, because fuck all that work for 8 more str. And I still haven't touched magic craft. The other skills aren't even that much of a grind. I remember when Carpentry used to be hard, but then there's now partner gathering bullshit. From what I can see on your character screen, you have so mach easy strength skills left to rank.
Another thing is, my two main classes are melee and range. Meaning I spent about same amount of AP and work into both. My dex is actually the highest stat on my character screen, thanks to abundance of dex through much grindier means.
There are two reasons as why you're struggling to reach that damage: 1. You're missing bunch of str skills than can easily be made up.
2. No gears. I mean who in mabi just runs a mission with just Kirinuijin's armor? That would be a rarity of the population. It's harder to find people that don't run with gears nowadays.
As for you, these are things you can do (but don't have to, do whatever you want) to help your shuriken damage, or melee weapon damage in general.
1. Derank all your magic. Sorry to say, but the only thing useful out of your magic tab is rank 1 firebolt, and bunch of others ranked for not much help.
2. Use those APs for the easier str gain or whatever. Ninja skills are part of the easier str gains.
3. Get some gears. You don't need to have some fancy shit like Champion, difficult, you can just get basic ones.
In fact, let's start out with a cheap set.
Head: Deserted Dexterity helmet. Dexterity? 400k in Alexinian market. Deserted? Even cheaper.
Body: Get one of those quartz pitch black armors that drop from raids, those go for like 300k. Or just get the avenger armors from the raid and slap on sight on it.
Shoes: Fleet Viscount/Camo. Fleet? Cheap as hell nowadays, you can get the scroll for <200k. Viscount people tend to overprice for some reason, but camo you should be able to get.
Gloves: Expansive gloves. Expansive just got pooped out of gacha, use NX if you're a NX user, or just buy from others. I've seen people buy them for 100k nowadays for a burn. Just put on whatever you want for suffix.
Accs: Stout EQ accs. Pooped from gachas before, cheap as hell.
With this set, as you rank other skills and what not, 500 damage with shurikens become ridiculously easy to surpass.
Or another route can be just deranking everything else and focusing solely on your magic. Your character's AP distributions is kind of over the place, so not ideal for the most efficient ninja. Either focus on str + will, or just int.