Ninja is weak, like very weak.

[Lunavi]

I think you're overvaluing TA. First, as other's have said now, it's rDPS contribution isn't that great any more. It also requires strong group coordination to really shine. Also, as others have said, NIN is the hardest melee class to play optimally currently, by far. The Mudra combos/sequence is too easy to mess up, and severely punishing when done incorrectly.

IMO, NIN needs a bit of a Mudra redesign (less buttons to press or less reliant on stacking mudras), and they need potency buffs, particularly for their AoE's..

3.0 BLMs can testament that difficulty =/= how good your class is. But yes, I would be fine with those changes, but to say that NIN is really weak which is what this thread implies when it is basically in the bottom middle of the pack is very odd, there are several classes worse than them, and some classes HAS to be the worse than others when there are differences to them.

Also, on the topic of TA, the problem is still that if they are tuned for 4-man content they will do more damage in 8-man content, it might not be much more, but consider this, the difference between top dog DPS and bottom right now is a little bit more than 10% and people cry that NIN is so bad it is silly, it doesn't take much for people to consider a class broken or useless.