How to use Macros for Ninjutsus?

[Rongway]

The jutsus are really easy if you have the mudras arranged correctly on your bars. Put Chi down, Jin left or right, Ten up, Ninjutsu opposite Jin. By doing this Earth is at the bottom and Heaven is at the top, with Man in the middle.

Then you have the following jutsus:

• Raiton - lightning strikes downward to the earth quickly
• Katon - flames rise into the air quickly
• Huton - energy flows through all three in an upward motion, into the air
• Doton - energy flows through all three in a downward motion into the ground; alternatively, man reaches to the sky and pulls energy down into the ground
• Hyoton and Suiton - man is 75% water, just remember that a two step jutsu is ice and a three step jutsu is water.

Visual guide:

The only lossless macros for ninjutsu involve changing the hotbar so that every jutsu is 1234 or 234. For example, if the next jutsu you want to use is Suiton, you press the Suiton button any time in advance and it changes your bar to Ten-Chi-Jin-Ninjutsu but doesn't perform any actions. Then when it comes time to use it, you press 1234. Then maybe you press the button for Hyoton so you can use Hyosho Ranryu and it changes your bar to blank-Ten-Jin-Ninjutsu. Then you press 234 to activate to activate that one.

This is really an overcomplicated process when you could just arrange the mudras correctly on your bar and spend some time hitting a dummy to learn the jutsus, though. I'm only mentioning it because if someone were to ask, "are there macros to help with Ninjutsu that don't drift your GCD" the strict answer is, "yes".

[Styrmwyda]

The jutsus are really easy if you have the mudras arranged correctly on your bars. Put Chi down, Jin left or right, Ten up, Ninjutsu opposite Jin. By doing this Earth is at the bottom and Heaven is at the top, with Man in the middle.

Then you have the following jutsus:

• Raiton - lightning strikes downward to the earth quickly
• Katon - flames rise into the air quickly
• Huton - energy flows through all three in an upward motion, into the air
• Doton - energy flows through all three in a downward motion into the ground; alternatively, man reaches to the sky and pulls energy down into the ground
• Hyoton and Suiton - man is 75% water, just remember that a two step jutsu is ice and a three step jutsu is water.

Visual guide:

While I usually have it as (when using a PS4 or PS5 controler) Cross = Ten, Circle = Chi, Triangle = Jin, and finally Square = Ninjutsu, your layout is pretty cool in terms of lore.

[Melethron123]

The jutsus are really easy if you have the mudras arranged correctly on your bars. Put Chi down, Jin left or right, Ten up, Ninjutsu opposite Jin. By doing this Earth is at the bottom and Heaven is at the top, with Man in the middle.

Then you have the following jutsus:

• Raiton - lightning strikes downward to the earth quickly
• Katon - flames rise into the air quickly
• Huton - energy flows through all three in an upward motion, into the air
• Doton - energy flows through all three in a downward motion into the ground; alternatively, man reaches to the sky and pulls energy down into the ground
• Hyoton and Suiton - man is 75% water, just remember that a two step jutsu is ice and a three step jutsu is water.

Visual guide:

that seems far more complicated than the standard setup...

1-2 = raiton
2-1 = katon
1-2-3 = suiton
3-2-1 = huuton
3-1-2 = doton

the reason why this standard setup is much more simple to use is the lvl 70 cooldown, ten-chi-jin, you'll just press 1-2-3 in order for the single target rotation. the aoe is a little less obvious (3-1-2) but it still follows the same order as the doton above

[Ilyn]

that seems far more complicated than the standard setup...

1-2 = raiton
2-1 = katon
1-2-3 = suiton
3-2-1 = huuton
3-1-2 = doton

the reason why this standard setup is much more simple to use is the lvl 70 cooldown, ten-chi-jin, you'll just press 1-2-3 in order for the single target rotation. the aoe is a little less obvious (3-1-2) but it still follows the same order as the doton above

For ten-chi-jin you should go 2-1-3 so you can get Katon and Suiton/Meisei to use HFM/Bunshin during AoE, you should have Doton down already so you don't lose dps from HN when you cast Katon in ten-chi-jin .

[Equitable_Remedy]

that seems far more complicated than the standard setup...

1-2 = raiton
2-1 = katon
1-2-3 = suiton
3-2-1 = huuton
3-1-2 = doton

the reason why this standard setup is much more simple to use is the lvl 70 cooldown, ten-chi-jin, you'll just press 1-2-3 in order for the single target rotation. the aoe is a little less obvious (3-1-2) but it still follows the same order as the doton above

This is the way. To take it a step further, the 1-2-3 mudras are the 1, 2, and 3 thumb keys on my mouse; the muscle memory is even easier.

This isn't meant as a criticism of anyone in this thread, but threads like this make me nervous. I really like the mudra system; it's a simple way to get the feel within the construct of this style of MMO. It seems intimidating (it did to me before I started playing NIN), but it's ultimately not any more complicated than any other class system in the game. I don't want these sorts of threads to convince SQEnix that there's a problem that needs to be fixed.

#SaveTheMudras