4.0 abilities

[Nalien]

Personally, I don't want to see either of those things. I want to see a merit point system where we can stick points into our EXISTING skills to improve them in some way.

I can see it now;

Ninja

Enhance All Fours!
Enhance Fleet of Foot!
Enhance Mug Effect!
Enhance Hide Effect!

Whatever they do for 4.0, I really hope they seriously adjust Ninja... It's not particularly broken, just a whole lot of odd choices... Kiss of the Wasp/Viper was seemingly designed with stance dancing in mind, then they completely failed to provide effects that would justify it... All Fours was always pointless, even before they removed fall damage from instances... Hide is incredibly meh after Lv50 and even before that it fails as a stealth skill, perfect invisibility is the god-mode cheat of stealth gameplay... Ninjutsu is fine, though I don't get why they halved the potential number of options... Why do I have two combinations for Huton when I could have Huton and Utsusemi?! Dream Within a Dream is just the mediocre icing on the proverbial cake... Yay, something not remotely interesting...

What I wouldn't give for them to rework the Hidden mechanic entirely... Tie it to enmity, make Shadewalker feel mechanically justified... Make me use it so I remain Hidden for longer, not because I'm bored and want to see if I can help a DPS pull hate and die... Suiton should just remove enmity to maintain Hidden, no idea why I can't Smoke Screen myself and no idea why Shukuchi, a skill in which I Smoke Screen myself and teleport away, doesn't reduce my enmity... Can Ninja feel stealthy please? In a manner that doesn't reduce my movement speed to that of a six day dead snail... I feel left out, Monk and Dragoon get nice glow effects from their mechanics, can't I have some misty effect for when I'm Hidden or something?