RIP Ninja

[silentwindfr]

is clearly not the same, if you had said me that bard will be in the same position than a healer that toggle on and off cleric stance, i will have say yes. but here is not close of use positional.
one question, why move when is not needed? because you will retain your freedom to move and attack when is needed. it's simply offering you an option to increase your dps. that not the case for the ninja. wanderer minuet is a boost of dps, not the positional of the ninja.

wanderer minuet offer you more option! up to you to use it or not. but a ninja that want to play normally, will be forced to use the positional. or them dps, will drop from what they can do now. when a bard not using wanderer minuet will retain them actual dps.

[RiceisNice]

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If a bard using wanderer's minuet is optional (I don't have to use it), then I can very much say the same for ninja's new skills in your case. Because bard has at least two skills that requires wanderer's minuet to be used. It's a safe assumption to say that bards would need to manage this to pull respectable dps in content to keep up with other classes who also get new skills.

If I'm not/don't want to use Wanderer's Minuet, I might as well play bard as it; without 3.0 Skills.
If you as a ninja do not want to use the new skills that require positional, then you can play ninja as it isl without 3.0 skills.