Mudra why so many ninja don't use them?

[Rongway]

The mudras require more memorization than most jobs to remember which combination does what

This is mostly because the order the game puts them on your bars is wrong. The game encourages you to put them on your bar in the order heaven-earth-man. If you put them in the order earth-man-heaven (Chi Jin Ten) most of them make a lot more sense.

• Huton: earth man heaven - energy flowing from the lowest point, through the caster, into the air
• Doton: heaven man earth - energy is flowing down through the caster into the earth
• Raiton: heaven earth or man earth - lightning strikes downward
• Katon: earth heaven or man heaven - flames rise.
• Suiton: (earth heaven) or (heaven earth) then man: gathering energy from all around and taking it in. This jutsu buffs you so you can use Trick Attack.

That just leaves Hyoton, which I have no good reminder for.

[sindriiisgaming]

This is mostly because the order the game puts them on your bars is wrong. The game encourages you to put them on your bar in the order heaven-earth-man. If you put them in the order earth-man-heaven (Chi Jin Ten) most of them make a lot more sense.

• Huton: earth man heaven - energy flowing from the lowest point, through the caster, into the air
• Doton: heaven man earth - energy is flowing down through the caster into the earth
• Raiton: heaven earth or man earth - lightning strikes downward
• Katon: earth heaven or man heaven - flames rise.
• Suiton: (earth heaven) or (heaven earth) then man: gathering energy from all around and taking it in. This jutsu buffs you so you can use Trick Attack.

That just leaves Hyoton, which I have no good reminder for.

This really doesn't simply them lol

[BelegErkhten]

That just leaves Hyoton, which I have no good reminder for.

"Only ever use this under Kassatsu"

[Mecia]

I mostly see NINs not doing consecutive Trick Attacks for some reason

Game needs actual job tutorials

[Jeeqbit]

The whole Doton thing on a single target is probably just because for a lot of the game's history, it was at minimum as good as Raiton and potentially better by 1 tick, if the boss would last long enough and stand still to get hit by all the ticks. So a lot of returning players or people picking up Ninja again after years would not necessarily know it changed at first.

I mostly see NINs not doing consecutive Trick Attacks for some reason

I mean nobody is going to coordinate in a PUG usually (also it's Mug now ).

[Fourbestintoner]

Don't worry DT will remove them.

[strawberrycake]

Ninja wasn;t hard before and and is even more easy now, if people aren't using mudras then I blame the lack of proper class and job based tutorials.

[sindriiisgaming]

Because they simply don't know how to. I'm a horrible ninja but even ik that unless your maintaining suiton u allways wanna use raitons

[Gemina]

Because they simply don't know how to. I'm a horrible ninja but even ik that unless your maintaining suiton u allways wanna use raitons

Raiton is actually your filler. Consideration can be given to Fuma if finishing off an enemy before a double mudra can be performed, or the boss is going to enter a transition that will expire Raiju Ready such as Barbariccia or Proto Carbuncle's.

All other jutsu are entirely situational and there are several.

For AoE situations Katon is your go-to. Doton requires at least five ticks to beat out Katon, so if at least one enemy will survive that long, then Doton should be applied and should be your first jutsu cast unless TCJ has it covered.

Suiton is for 2min and 1min burst windows, and Hyoton is only used under Kassatsu, which also falls under the burst windows.

I tried to explain this to a friend of mine and his response was, "I'm just going to play Ninja Storm."

I also suggested that Huton should come with a small AoE nuke instead of having the ultra lame Hurajin. Oh well. :/

Edit: Man, my Doton math was way off. I'm surprised no one called out my BS, lol. Ah, well. I fixed it.

[Eastwall]

Tried It once in pve, then l went back to summoner.