Ninja, way better than every other class.

[RylaiBluecrow]

My friend swapped from monk to ninja on release because at the time, it was more-or-less better than monk at the time; A flat 20% boost to all damage (including magic), much lower overall TP usage, and better maintenance of dps at the time (we were still on T9).

Would anyone play it if it wasn't op. This reminds me of a moba game and them nerfing new champions 1~2 month after coming out.

[Callinon]

Would anyone play it if it wasn't op. This reminds me of a moba game and them nerfing new champions 1~2 month after coming out.

It wasn't really op at the time, it just looked like it was.

Poisons giving 20% damage? Doesn't matter because the damage numbers were balanced around that existing.
TP costs low? Yeah they were a little low, but the adjustment brought them pretty much in line and it wasn't a huge adjustment
Damage? I believe Aeolian Edge got a 5% nerf a little time after release. So one ability was very slightly too strong. So OP!

The attraction for me was the ninjutsu requiring individual mudra input. I thought they could do some cool stuff with a system like that, and so far they have (though they could do more).

[Allyrion]

It wasn't really op at the time, it just looked like it was.

Poisons giving 20% damage? Doesn't matter because the damage numbers were balanced around that existing.
TP costs low? Yeah they were a little low, but the adjustment brought them pretty much in line and it wasn't a huge adjustment
Damage? I believe Aeolian Edge got a 5% nerf a little time after release. So one ability was very slightly too strong. So OP!

The attraction for me was the ninjutsu requiring individual mudra input. I thought they could do some cool stuff with a system like that, and so far they have (though they could do more).

The combinations are very cool.
The system allows NIN to have 13 Job abilities vs the 5 everyone else gets.
It's really a good way to include an interesting mechanic, provide a wider variety of abilities and still reduce button bloat.
That's one of the main reasons I play NIN, in addition to the magic-melee hybrid as well as being able to glamour swords.
Still waiting for SAM though.

They're doing a similar design with things like the AST cards and the new stances as well, I think.

[Dat_Jynx]

Was MNK on FFXI then SAM and NIN. Pretty much the same on FFXIV. I'm currently waiting on SAM also. Hoping they keep it as a DPS like they talked about before.