RIP Ninja

[Adire]

NIN will still do ridiculous damage and be very desirable for TA and goad
and positionals arent that bad. its actually a lot of fun

If you like that, sure.

Ninja appeals to me, and to a lot of people I imagine, because it does not have many positionals (only 2, and they share a 60 second CD). I do not find monk to be fun. It's very frustrating, not to mention painful for my hands, to constantly do positionals. That's just my preference.

Ninja provided a viable alternative to monk. Now Ninja will have to do what Monk does as well as use mudras. It's even worse that old skills are getting positionals.

This whole time people have gotten accustomed to using them without positionals, now suddenly they will have to do otherwise.

Job diversity is the main problem I have here. Now if I want to melee DPS, having an alternative to positionals is no longer an option. They'd be better off adding more mudras if they want to keep NIN its own job but make it more complicated to play at the same time.

It sounds like NIN may just be MNK with mudras and maybe slightly lower dps, and DRG will do higher dps than previously without much difficulty added onto playing the class.