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    Aeliott Cadenza
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    Monk Lv 90
    It's probably best to think of it as a priority system rather than a set in stone rotation. I don't main NIN so I'm sure I'll be corrected if wrong - but:

    Get Huton up before pull, and then your priority goes:
    Armor Crush* > Dancing Edge > Shadow Fang > Mutilate > Aeolian Edge

    Armor Crush takes some getting used to, but generally you want to refresh Huton with it somewhere between 20-40s left on it. You have some leeway here as ideally you wanna make sure your other 3 dots are up before refreshing, but downtime mixes things up.

    Dancing Edge combo takes about 8s, so start aiming to refresh around that time. Also if it gets to Aeolian Edge but you can't hit the rear then Armor Crush is stronger (flank only), Dancing Edge is also stronger (front and flank, but Crush is better for flank). Always use Crush when you need to regardless of positionals. Always use Duality with Aeolian if possible, but if it seems like you won't be able to get one off any time soon just boost Armor Crush. Obviously WARs might be using Storm's Eye in which case you don't need to worry about Dancing Edge, that said it's still stronger if you can only hit the front.

    For Ninjutsu, unless you need to save Trick Attack for an upcoming burst phase or something, use Suiton -> Trick Attack when available, otherwise Raiton for single target (if your mudras are a bit laggy you can use Shuriken instead). That's a very general run-down at least.
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    Drakeos Shadowbane
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    Excalibur
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    Arcanist Lv 90
    Thank you Aeliott <3
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    Zaisoke Kaiser
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    Ninja Lv 60
    Basically what Aeliott said i just have a few things to add

    if there are high burst phases you will want to get your huton time to its max (which means refreshing at exactly 40s) for room to use extra aeolians instead of armor crush.

    once you hit 60 you will also start to get massive amounts of skillspeed, prepare for your global cooldown to drop to around 2seconds bringing your longest combos down to 6 seconds.

    its still a dps increase to use duality on shadowfang, or armor crush, so you shouldnt fudge your priority to use it on aeolian, and you want duality on cooldown p much all the time unless youre saving it for a DPS check.

    since you cant always hit positionals, its okay to use crush when you need to, but since huton is so lax about it falling off, you will want to use dancing edge unless your huton is less than 15 seconds. similarly you will want to use dancing edge, even if the warrior has storms eye up, if you cannot hit your positionals.
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    OOOO thank you so much so worth keep trucking till 60 then ?
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