Please do something about the Mudra lag!

Mudras simply need to become active the second you press the button and not on an animation delay. That's the main problem this lag issue keeps cropping up. You see it in skills like Benediction, Hallowed Ground, and even positional attacks on melee DPS as well.

I've had times in the same fight where I'll have super smooth mudra input where I just tap all 3 in the order I need with very little time between them (since you can queue them the same was as other skills) and you'll see the circular cooldown animation on the icons never pauses so I can do it within one GCD, and then the next time I go to use ninjutsu there's a half second pause between activations, which really slows everything down. It would be nice if the dev team could fix it.

I'm glad I'm not the only feeling this way about the mudra. I think I'll give up nin for now, it was my intention to make it my main. But whenever that mudra screws up because I use the mudra too fast, even after I heard the last ding. Reeeaallllyyy ticks me off! I'd be more subtle with my hate towards it if I was able to use my weapon skills in between mudra. But no. Guess I'll wait for the new jobs and see how messed up they are.

My main fear is the addition of a 4th mudra, or any more mudra combinations in general being added in the expansion, without the current issue being addressed.

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Originally Posted by Nalien

This isn't even something unique to Mudra, it's simply more noticeable with Mudra.

I've had plenty of instances on Monk where my combo gets interrupted because, for example, I hit Twin Snakes and the animation goes half off before deciding I didn't actually hit it. Same thing happens with abilities too, I'll be weaving Jumps between GCDs and I'll go up before returning to my original place with the game telling me "No, sorry, you didn't actually use Jump".

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So that's what it's called when I hit, say, my Shoulder Tackle and I hear the ability's sound but nothing happens?

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Originally Posted by Noshpan

So that's what it's called when I hit, say, my Shoulder Tackle and I hear the ability's sound but nothing happens?

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That is typically from when a mob is moving. You use shoulder tackle, move to the mob, but no damage is dealt nor is the stun applied, but it doesn't go on CD. Yay free movement?

I play on PS4 and I came upon another Ninja on the PC, and I saw how quickly he could put those mudras together and I tried to do them as fast but it wouldn't let me even attempt it cause of the cooldown.

While i like the idea of mudras since it really feels like your casting the spell, they implemented it so bad they should just remove it. If the actions cannot be done with a reasonable reliability, then they should just cast the ninjitsu the way that all other spells are cast.

Agreed, just give us a CD to use them. lol

They should separate the cooldowns between the mudra and the ninjutsu buttons. Then let the mudras be weavable between gcds. Then ninjas can prepare their ninjutsus 3 gcds or so ahead and weave in the ninjutsu on the next gcd. Mudra combination can reset if you use 2gcds without weaving in mudras in case you decide to use a different ninjutsu and need to restart.

Ninjutsu right now is like classic hunting horn in monster hunter. It needs to be like current hunting horn.