Client Side Mudras

[IzzyData]

Since you are asking these sorts of questions it is worth mentioning that you can fit off-GCD skills inbetween the GCD timers (never played WoW beyond level 5 so not sure if this is the norm), but skills such as Jugulate and Mug you generally want to use between your GCD weaponskills. The animation will clip, but the effect will still go off on these skills.

I did notice those. WoW has off GCD abilities as well like shadowstep for rogues. It seems like you could also use mudras inbetween the GCD of other normal abilities too. Like I would use spinning edge, gust slash and then immediately after gustslash goes off I can already be casting a mudra for suiton then as soon as suiton goes off I can cast both Aeolian Edge and Trick attack at the same time because trick attack is off GCD and the normal GCD for abilities was resetting while I was casting a mudra.

There seems to be way too many kinds of cooldowns which makes it feel clunky and inconsistent to me.

[Altena]

It seems like you could also use mudras inbetween the GCD of other normal abilities too.

There seems to be way too many kinds of cooldowns which makes it feel clunky and inconsistent to me.

That is correct, as Mudras / Ninjutsu are technically not on the GCD (although it's practically impossible to truly fit a full 3-step combination between a GCD, at least with my latency). Which is part of the problem to begin with.

You get used to the off-GCD's, however this patch added 4 new off-GCD's which has made the starting NIN rotation extremely busy (especially if you wish to help the tank with Enmity so they can focus on a higher damage rotation).