How Best to Use the New Ninja Skills

[CodeCass]

Greetings everyone! It feels great to be back in the community that I love as I've returned for Heavensward! With that said, I had a question:

I'm aware of the new skills my Ninja will receive on the road to 60 (at the time of this post I'm currently level 53). My question is: what's been found to be the popular way to utilize these new skills into our existing rotations? Not looking for anything just overly specific as I know so much of it is based on the situation, but I'm just looking for some examples of the more popular rotations these days. I'm sure some of the skills are more useful than others, and I was just wondering what others have done to make the most of these new abilities.

Thanks for any and all help, it's greatly appreciated! Hope everyone is enjoying the expansion as much as I am!

[Garlyle]

Off the top of my head and admittedly loose knowledge of Ninja:

Smokescreen: Throw this on your healer(s) from time to time. Especially in 4-mans they're the most in danger if they accidentally rip hate off the tank, and yes, some tanks are really bad at AoE and your healers will love you for this.
Armor Crush: Use this if Huton is below 40s remaining instead of the alternative.
Shadowwalker: Throw it on your tank when available to help maintain aggro. Do not use this recklessly in any content that mandates a tank swap however.
Duality: I would assume you combine this with your highest potency weaponskills, but depending on where you are in your rotation it might be more effective to use it on any of your combo finishers instead of saving it for a specific one because of downtime. Not sure.
Dream Within A Dream: I don't know if this animation locks you, but I'm pretty sure you use it whenever it's off cooldown and your buffs up are. If it does animation lock you just be a bit more cautious to ensure you're not about to get wasted for it.

[Dante_V]

Smoke screen is quelling strikes that you can cast on a party member. It lowers the hate generated by that party member for the duration of the effect.

Armor crush is used to replenish Huton in battle instead of Mudra Huton. Use it by replacing an aeolian edge in your rotation with armor crush when your Huton buff is below 40. I typically use it between 40 - 24 seconds window or when an mob is about to die.

Shadow walker transfers 80% of the hate you generate after the cast to whichever target you select. You can use it before the pull to insure you don't rip aggro or to send a mob back over to the tank.

Duality is used to make a weapon skill hit twice. I use it ion aeolian or armor crush typically.

[Dante_V]

Dream within a dream is an OGCD attack. Try to capture it in your trick attack during your opener and just pop it when it's up. No stun lock and you can freely move while doing the animation.

Opener is the same as before but just add duality before aeolian and get dream in the TA window.

[CodeCass]

Thanks so very much for the response guys. This is exactly the info I was looking for! much Appreciated.