I don't want to see Ninja's spells compressed into a single button like they are with the Three Mudra button currently in PVP. Keep Ten, Chi, Jin and Ninjutsu as abilities. These 3 abilities are some of the most well designed skills in the game because it really gives you a unique feeling when you're playing Ninja over other Jobs. They reward you for executing the combos correctly in the right scenario and it just feels good to use. It feels like you're weaving spells together, which I think was the intended effect here.
Three Mudra is an extremely boring and flavorless way to achieve the same thing. Adding this to Ninja in PVE would be dumbing down the job to such an extreme degree that I would no longer enjoy playing it. I can see why this was added in PVP because its a fast paced, reactive environment and doing mudra combos in that kind of setting wouldn't feel great, but in PVE it's a completely different story.
This also goes for other jobs. Don't remove well designed abilities just to compress buttons more. Remove abilities like Dream within a Dream that are basically flavorless "Do Damage" buttons and don't fulfill any type of job fantasy.
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Three Mudra is an extremely boring and flavorless way to achieve the same thing. Adding this to Ninja in PVE would be dumbing down the job to such an extreme degree that I would no longer enjoy playing it. I can see why this was added in PVP because its a fast paced, reactive environment and doing mudra combos in that kind of setting wouldn't feel great, but in PVE it's a completely different story.
This also goes for other jobs. Don't remove well designed abilities just to compress buttons more. Remove abilities like Dream within a Dream that are basically flavorless "Do Damage" buttons and don't fulfill any type of job fantasy.
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