Alternatives to "nerfing" ninja

[Krr]

What are you, some sort of oracle? You can see the future? Or wait, could it be, you're a part of the SE team and know the EXACT changes to the potency and cooldowns of the skills?!

Uh, they announced it in a liveletter.

Two of the changes they were discussing were improvements to the damage done by DoT skills and the removal of positional requirements to achieve buffs/combo extensions (i.e., h-thrust still giving you the damage buff, but only yielding a 100-potency attack from the side.)

In the same liveletter they also announced intentions to 'adjust' the TP costs and damage of NIN abilities in response to complaints that NIN is, somehow, doing too much DPS by uh...being valid competition with MNK, something DRG never has been except in weird meta double BRD comps post 2.1. Generally, this would refer to a nerf.

Nobody here is crystal-balling. It's, y'know, info from actual announcements from the development team that you can look up in just about any translation of the liveletter.