Quote Originally Posted by Alahra View Post
Square-Enix in particular was awful about this kind of thing in FFXI, so I'm not particularly surprised they haven't gotten better about it (since there is/was significant overlap between the teams for the two games). I've actually always been rather curious about how they intended NIN to play, as they came out and said we were doing things with it that they didn't anticipate (but for the life of me I can't figure out any other way it could have been played).
I think they were treating the Ninjutsu as a 2 second cast time pseudo-GCD action rather than the oGCD cooldown players use it as.