I love NIN, aesthetically. When I play, I get a bit annoyed. Babysit huton, dots, and dancing edge if I have to. Those aren't that bad, so lets skip it.

What I wanted to talk about is how annoying it is to use ninjutsu with mudras. I'm not talking about the order of ten, chi, and jin. I'm talking about how annoying it is to accidentally fail ninjutsu either by accidentally hit one of them twice or hitting 3 mudras but only 2 registered then end up with wrong ninjutsu or rabbit mocking me. It gets annoying the 50th time you try to use them. They are truly the main reason I can't get into NIN.

You can say thats the unique thing about this job. I agree when I was leveling one, and it was fun using those mudras, but it got lame real fast when I'm lvl60 and geared. This "unique feature" has been nothing but lag and delay between GCD skills for my game play. Other jobs have none of this problem because I simply need to hit one button to execute action. This isn't something you can fix with ping or improving from server side like the previous improvement in the patch.

For more NIN lover and any new people to love NIN more, the current mudras and ninjutsu system have to go. Since battle system rework is coming, I would like to propose some changes and hopefully Yoshi-P can consider implement. There are 2 ways to make the change.

The first way is completely remove mudras and ninjutsu. Remove them and keep mudras ten/chi/jin to display in their correct order as a part of skill animation for the correspond ninjutsu skill. This way, we don't need to worry about server lag, ping, or whatever.

For example: When use Fuma Shuriken, the character will cast either ten or chi or jin then throw the shuriken out. When use Huton, the character will cast jin, chi, ten and then apply huton on.

The second way is make it impossible to fail mudras and remove ninjutsu. I am thinking of a special UI for NIN mudras. It is a bar contain with ten, chi, jin, and an open slot for the correspond ninjutsu skill to appear. In order to make it impossible to fail, each used mudra will be grayed out if no possible combination is available, so mutiple button press won't work. Also, make it so that you can use other gcd/ogcd skills after mudra and before the use of ninjutsu skills to make fail impossible.

For example: When use jin, chi, and ten, I can use spinning edge before casting huton.
This also allow the creation of future 4th mudra combination such as ten/chi/jin/ten or ten/chi/jin/chi, etc for more cool ninjutsu!