The Problems With Ninja In Endwalker

[AnotherPerson]

Lets say you lose 1 Dissipation in the fight due to holding the CD and lets say you would use only Energy Drain for all three Aetherflow stacks. You just gained 30 potency and some free movement, this is because Broil is 290 potency and the combined Ruin 2 and Energy drain is 300 potency. However you cannot hold Raijus so if you do not use them and instead do Gust Slash 330p > Aeolian Edge 420p (which is not guaranteed, its just the highest potency combo of gcds) You just lost 100 potency while gaining free movement because both Raijus together are 850 potency. Now apply all the extra damage increases that a party has and the effective potency loss just increases more and more.

You don't gain 30 potency - All healer's nukes are being reworked to be 1.5 secs in Endwalker, so you lose 3 aetherflow worth of energy drains. Ruin II is an absolute loss in DPS now. You don't want to weave Ruin II with Energy Drain.

And yes, I'm not arguing that it's bad design, because both are bad design. ._.