Monk Pressure Point

FINAL FANTASY XIV Patch 6.11
Action Adjustment
Enlightenment Additional damage from the Pressure Point effect has been increased from 8,000 to 12,000.


FINAL FANTASY XIV Patch 6.4
Action Adjustment
Enlightenment Potency of Pressure Point effect's additional damage has been reduced from 12,000 to 8,000.

I'm genuinely asking what purpose does this serve and/or what issue does this fix or resolve?

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Like I can name a NUMBER of issues--things with Monk, that actually need tweaking or tuning to make it better without breaking it or making it overly good.

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Letting you trigger Earth's Reply through stun-lock spam so you 'might' get your slow ass heal off before you get popped (it's not like it reduces damage taken it's ONLY doing something IF it goes off).

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Having the heal that eventually comes out of Earth's Reply not take 3~5 seconds to go off when you DO manage to get the move off--you die sometimes even managing to get the move off because of that slow the heal is to resolve.

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Some level of immunity like (Dragoon gets) during LB or at least damage reduction cause it feels SUPER BAD when you LB and basically you stun yourself so EVEN IF you have heals/shields to try and survive with, you've just stunned yourself; so your basically a punching-bag for the enemy team get pop you--a self stun as part of your super move is pretty lame, just sayin'.

That's just 3 random off the top of my head vague ideas without even trying that I think of that would have been a million times better than; OH how about we take a step forward, wait a few months then take the same step, but backwards! :p

To be clear... Pressure Point taking a 33% damage nerf or being reset back to zero, depending on how you wanna look at it, isn't the end of the world, it just feels very stupid given all the OTHER things that could be looked at or improved; like when I read it, it felt like some dude is just randomly spinning a wheel; it landed on a Monk skill then another wheel got spun and THAT landed on a down-arrow. Like oh I guess we'll take this and make it less; DONE--YeY TEAM! We did it! We did an update!

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tl;dr the patching chain of events seems stupid and convoluted and real issues never seem to get noticed or fixed--end rant.

Tends to be how they do updates. Nonsensical nerfs/buffs to jobs nobody was asking for. I'd think my goldfish is more competent at making changes then their pvp team.

The purpose was probably to reduce the LB combo lethality (although it's still omega lethal), which raises the question as to why this was increased in 6.1 to begin with...

MNK is one of the jobs that relies way too much on its LB for its viability. The LB needs to be toned down and the rest of the kit to be tuned, on top of stuff like riddle to be reviewed.