Thread: 8.0 DPS Job Rework Workshop/Megathread. Goals, Design Principles, and Mock-Ups.

I really like Ninja, I just think the job is really clunky and unflexible right now!

First problem: Button bloat!
Ninja has a lot of useless skills that do not need a button for.

- That's why my first change would be to remove Meisui as a skill and just add the effect onto Ten Chi Jin (next Bhavacakra deals bonus damage)
- Remove Hide and just add the passive trait that all mudras reset out of combat. -> Add Trick attack/Kunai's bane ready to Suiton/Huton

These would be the savest, must have changes I'd love to see! Next I have a few ideas, that would make ninja more flexible and less punishing in its rotation:

- You do not lose Raiju stacks after using other melee skills, instead you can use them whenever you want. (Max 3 stacks)
- Remove Forked Raiju and make Fleeting Raiju into a ranged attack.

And now to my personal, probably highly unlikely change, that I'd like to see:

- Remove Bunshin, remove Phantom Kamaitachi (not needed anymore if Raiju becomes ranged), remove the Kazematoi stacks on Armor crush!
- Instead add 5 bunshin stacks to Armor crush!

The melee rotation would be Spinning edge, Gust slash, Armor crush, gain 5 bunshin stacks, then Spinning edge, Gust slash, Aolian edge, Spinning edge, Gust slash again, that would use up all 5 stacks and then you can use Armor crush again for permanent clone action!

And for my last change, I would like to change the mudra Hyoton, which currently does nothing in pve content.

- Make Hyoton into a 60 second dot with good potency! (Could maybe add a raiju stack, too)

With all these changes you have 4 less buttons (Hide, Meisui, Bunshin, Forked Raiju) and one new mudra (Hyoton) to use in your burst window instead of a raiton!
And a very much more open rotation like Viper, the other "ranged" melee job, which they already share their gear with!
They would lose their gap closer (which was rarely used anyway), but ninja can now just use their new ranged raiju to close the gaps with just running (Nin has increased movement speed anyway) or with Shukuchi.

Anyways these would be my changes for Ninja, the class (that I have played) that needs a rework the most!