Ninja is still good, just not great, the Mudra lag hasnt been fixed and probably never will. I did 943 DPS with i186 and doing LB3 and LB1 with BR ping, using Battleping to help with mudra lag and Im just gonna go back to MNK next week with the eso weapon, but still Ninja isnt that bad atm, its just that the fights that we are comparing are really hard to compare with other classes, now if we start talking about Dummy parsers, yeah Ninja is behind but not that far behind, whats happening is that Ninja must crit his combo skills, and atm Ninja has the lowest crit compared to the other melees, its just impossible to compare when you have IR trait on MNK, 20s 15% buff on DRG and a 100% crit skill/action on both of them. Id say that if they fixed Mudra Lag and lowered the CD on DWAD to 60s Ninja would be better, wouldnt catch up 100% on DPS but still would feel much more rewarding to play, which is a thing that both melees got, fixes to their problems, DRG had low utility and DPS in general compared to NIN/MNK in 2.0, MNK had problems keeping up GL when PB was down or there was a big downtime, but Ninja got 2 utility skills that arent that rewarding to use (just like MNK got Purification that atm is useless).