Ok devs, let's be honest here, Jason sucks. His only non-self DPS skill is his weird anti-aggro thing, so he obviously is trying to be a DPS, but one of his skills (Ambush) is hard to use and he only has one self DPS item. His gold bonus item also means that he is in every farming formation that doesn't include Pete. Jason either needs some serious buffs to his self DPS skills, or needs to be retooled. I have a few ideas of how we can do that. I don't know Jason's backstory (if he even has one) so I'm just going to go with things that make sense with his ninjaness, and retool him as a buffer that can still do well with tanking strategies. I'm also thinking he could be somewhat flexible, like Groklok/Drizzle and Larry are.

Night Vision: Increase your critical click chance by 3%. This buff would help both clicking strategies and passive criticals.
Subtle Deflection: Unchanged. This will still matter later.
Crouching Jason, Hidden Jason: Unchanged. Self DPS skills are still useful for early game players.
X-Ray Vision: Increase the DPS of all crusaders by 30% if there is another crusader in front of Jason. X-Rays help him point out where to attack. The 30% number is arbitrary and could be changed.
Use the Force: Swordplay buff. I'm still missing Nate and Merci's click buff items, so I think another swordplay buff would be good.
Ambush: Increase the DPS of all crusaders by 200% when another crusader in the same column as Jason is being attacked. I like the idea of ambush, but Jason just doesn't make a good DPSer as it is. This would be mutually exclusive with X-Ray Vision, and again, this number might need to change.

With a departure from his (attempted) role as a DPSer, it might make sense to replace Jason's self DPS item with something useful to his new role as a buffer. The goggles could buff his X-Ray Vision and Ambush abilities, increase crit chance or damage, or increase click damage.

Thoughts? Other ideas?

I have no problem with him. I use him in formations that have multiple front rank slots, and put my tank characters (The Pumpkin if there are 2 slots, Pumpkin and Thalia if 3) in the other positions. His anti-taunt plus the 100% gold bonus he gives me makes this a great spot for him.

Jason's only job is to be a 50% gold buff, 40% dps-all buff (with rare/epic gold/dps items). I don't even level him up until I'm ready to reset.

I agree with you Smash, mine was an answer to thedude. And I like your suggestion for a Jason rework, because right now he sucks badly. As does phoenix, another crusader that needs a rework.