Ninja

[TheLastDream]

Didn't get a chance to watch live letter yet, How we looking in Stormblood?

[zcrash970]

Pretty good actually. Everyone looks good at the moment.

[rxnin]

Ninja is looking AMAZING!!! There's a buff that allows us to cast 3 jutsus one right after the other with no cooldown. Also, we can summon a giant frog that spits fire! So excited for Stormblood.

[TheLastDream]

Thanks guys for the responses, Can't wait to play my ninja when it releases!

[Sylvain]

Basically you become even more Naruto than before.
I predict mirror image for the next xpac. (That would actually be very cool, like 4-5 copy popping and attacking your target with a leap jump!)
Beside the frog, no new mudra which is a bit of a bummer imo.

[Maero]

There is also an ability that looks like that of leylines from what i gathered? No idea what it is

[Airget]

So for Job UI we get a pinwheel to show out Huton timer and a Ninja Scroll which seems to relate to a new mechanic built up from "auto attacks" that allow access to certain abilities most likey with their won cooldowns.

Toad seems to use 100, the Triple "jutsu" cast that isn't really triple but rather it lets you do sign 1-jutsu sign 2-jutsu sign 3-jutsu which is pretty neat and sound like it will flow nicely so to explain ti better it's like this.

You can Ten-Shuriken-Chi-Raiton-Jin-Suiton in that order or you could do Chi-Shurkien-Ten-Katon-Chi-Sution or you could do Ten-Jin-Chi aka Shuriken-Hyoton-Doton

so there is definitely interesting combos to be had based on the situation, the Shuriken will always be part of the combo then you can choose between Lightning/Ice/Fire + Earth/Wind/Water or Pure DMG/AOE DMG/ Bind+DMG and AOE DoT/Att speed up/Trick Attack activation.

It also looks like Mug has been redesigned to give you a big boost in charging the scroll. Another thing I noticed is we didn't see any Wasp/Viper activated so they may have removed those stances. However this is all based on the video, there are some inconsitencies like Shukuchi being used rather quickly after first one same with Huton into Raiton, since there was no sign that Kassatsu was used however, theory time.

Hide may have a new mechanic, "Gives you a free Shukuchi use + resets your ninjutsu timer" since they used hide, then Shukuchi and were able to ninjutsu again but only 4 seconds had passes and honestly, if they do make Hide a mechanic for in battle, that be pretty cool.

[KuroiKarasu]

The shadow fang animation was used as the third hit of a full combo, so maybe it got combined with DE or AE.?

[Arkenne]

The NIN looked a bit lackluster in the video in comparison to the others but I think its because they had to showcase stuff at an eye catching speed (not what one is used to with the openers and all).

I am more concerned than happy about the chained Jutsus tho,
I do like it, it is a pretty badass concept, however I have 2 questions:

- Is the Jutsu ground the NIN's lay lines??
- Will we be unable to use anything but Jutsus while in the chain Jutsu ground??

[Nihlus_Tia]

One thing that gave me pause was that we lose both Internal Release and Blood for Blood from the Cross-Class system. Dragoon and Monk are only going to lose one which is kind of disappointing considering we're already behind both in personal DPS. I can only hope that we get a strong DPS cooldown in exchange for Goad becoming available to all DPS.

Based on video from the Live Letter it looks like Shadow Fang will be a 3rd tier combo finisher, but it will apply the Slashing Debuff. The consolidation is nice.