I didn't jump on the NIN hype-train yet. I used all of the additional low levels to help me finish my WHM so I could have 1 decently geared job in each aspect of holy trinity. I won't pretend to know what I'm talking about when it comes to Ninja, but this thread seriously reminds me of some of the problems DPS had with bards before they got nerfed (i think it was 2.1 or pre-2.1?) and specifically what Yoshi-P said in regards to Bards.

Not his exact wording, but he said something along the lines of "We want all the different types of DPS to be like pieces to a puzzle. Currently, we feel that Bards have too many pieces of that puzzle."

We got a couple potency nerfs, the additional effect on Rain of Death was altered, and BfB's base damage increased was nerfed, but the DRG trait that raises it stayed the same. The last one was basically just to hurt anyone who cross-classes it, but hurt Bards the most due to all of the different buffs we can get. The extra damage multipled to a greater effect if we popped Hawk's Eye and Raging with it.

Is this accurate for how most of you feel? That NIN's "have too many pieces of the puzzle" ??

Because after reading some of the comments in this thread about what it can do, it sure as shit sounds like they are more OP than Bards ever were before we got nerfed....