Ninja DPS Output(A possible Fix)

[Uliq]

Or... they could literally just increase some potencies on already existing skills without adding more buttons and increase NIN's rDPS via aDPS.

This suggestion would turn hide, already on your hotbar into another skill. Not add a button.

adding more damage buffs to the job is just more likely to cause SE to undertune it again in the future, because they've been clearly terrified of accidentally giving too much firepower to jobs with raid buffs since SHB.

SE is undertuning it because of what trick actually does.(to my knowledge) It increases all the dmg the boss is taking from all sources to include dots. This includes attacks that don't crit or DH but still stacks with it. This has been their argument always in ninjas existence and is why their dps is so low and we are considered support even with only one skill. They aren't promising us potencies and whenever the conversation happens around ninja it is always first adjust trick attack and if they can't get it right then give them damage. Thats why it took so many patches in SHB to fix.

[Satarn]

SE is undertuning it because of what trick actually does.(to my knowledge)

It doesn't matter how Trick works - at the end of the day it just increases the total rDPS contribution of NIN and should be counted as part of it, just like SAM's pure outgoing damage counts towards theirs.

NIN is not the only job with a raid buff that's gotten undertuned though. DRG likewise was lagging behind at 6.0 the launch. Entire physical ranged role was(and kinda stayed) awful when 5.0 launched. DNC is incredibly bad right now. SE is just in general afraid of the HW/SB meta when all people cared about was raid buffs. On the other hand MNK and RPR are allowed to be genuinely op, because SE considers them "selfish" jobs - at least according to what Yoshi P usually says - since their raid buffs aren't that powerful by themselves.