Dragoon, under the shadow of Ninja

[RiceisNice]

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It's not even being a matter of unnaturally fast; the game has buffer time to allow you to "queue" skills just as the cooldown is about to expire. Press any mudra key in succession and unless you're buttoning mashing the hell out of it, you won't get the "ability isn't ready yet" error. The only thing to account for in this scenario is latency (and I'm assuming 0 latency for these sorts of talk, otherwise we might as well apply that to getting positional.). Even with slight latency, it definitely does not take as long as 3 seconds to cast a 3-mudra ninjitsu, and especially not in the case of raiton (which is 2-mudras).

And while you have a point on fuuton not dealing damage, Suiton still hits for 180 potency (which also allows access to a 400 potency +10% damage taken debuff) and raiton hits for 360, the latter usually being double tapped with 100% crit from Kassatsu.

Not necessarily saying ninja is stronger, but it's pretty damn close and more flexible since they both do not gobble TP as fast as a monk (allowing them to dps longer without requiring paeon to lower the bard's dps) and aren't restrained by losing GL3 stacks to phase changes or fireball happy bosses ruining your positional.