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    MNK is a pretty ridiculous damage dealer. I notice MNK dps vs DRK WAR DPS is pretty big. A WAR or DRK may hit an NM for 550-700 per hit but MNKs with how broken Oatixurs are, hit the same mob for ~450-500 per fist. Coupled with the fact that Formless makes them extremely valuable in every delve zone is the fact that they have huge HP and survival tools compared to DRK or WAR. Even before MNKs could use Victory Smite with Oatixur, MNK was usually the top DPS job, now with Victory Smite, their damage is nonpareil. The sad thing is Ukko's Fury, Torcleaver, Camlann's Torment are terrible weapon skills compared to the merit WS counterparts, MNKs and SAM whom were already quite powerful(arguable the most powerful) in Delve content got a substantial boost to DPS by being able to use Tachi:Fudo/Victory Smite while DRK,WAR,DRG didn't really get any kind of boost to DPS by being able to use Empyrean WS. MNK with Victory Smite and SAM are now probably the best DDs by a wide margin that not even ilvl Ragnarok DRKs with Resolution will probably come close. Man, SAM with Tsumaru literally WS every 2 seconds at full haste with the crazy amount of Save TP they have, they have 3hit builds and with all their double attack and full buff haste, 3 hits are achieved so quickly. When I go as DRG and watch my LS SAM with Tsumaru in action, he weapon skills maybe 3-4x in the span of my 1 WS(not to mention his WS due drastically more since Shoha gets an Attack Bonus and Stardiver does not)

    I guess this makes up for the fact that MNK was an underused job from 2003-2010 in the HNM scene outside of SATA Full Swing and Chi Blast, but still. MNK has many, many tools, extremely high damage output, can output damage under a wide variety of situations and has an extremely powerful SP1, very good survivability. There are very few situations where someone would 'need' to have a WAR,DRK,DRG,SAM when they can just throw MNKx6 at it. Groups on Cerberus are now lowmanning Tojil with 10 people. They just bring 2 BRDs, 2 WHMs and 6 MNKs and defeat NM 1-5+Boss in Morimar with like 10min to spare, definitely not something you could do with 6DRKs or 6WARs or 6DRGs.
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    Last edited by Ophannus; 11-08-2013 at 05:41 AM.