Monks very weak. Need rebalance

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I'm pretty sure this was a troll thread gone very poorly.

[ChaozK]

Monk is an ok DPS but hard to play class. It's DPS is not super high or super low after you got relic weapon. before that, monk dps is poor. but If your Internet coonection isn't great, I suggest you don't try MNK. you will die a lot in end game and your DPS will be on bottom of group.

MNK dps is amazing at the moment you unlock GL3 at lvl 40. I have never been outparsed by any other class on my MNK. They are top dps #1, it just needs a skilled player.

[Sterob]

Greetings. I think, that monks are the weakest DPS class in the game. For example my critical hits on level 50 with GC-weapon and some DL gear are almost always beyond 300 (260-280). Dragoons make much more damage and have very good AoE- monk not. Yes, I know about Dragon kick and Greeased lightning and yes- Im playing only monk and know this class rather good. So, I want developers rebalance monks and some of their skills- for example skill "Shoulder Tackle" is very stupid and unusable because of it LONG cool down and stupid condition of use. Thank you

BRD, full DL with AF ring and ifrit bow which att is way higher than GC weapon have crit 280-295.
MNK with some DL and GC weapon crit 260-280

Seriously, stop being bad and L2P.

[Swick]

They have fist of wind and fist of earth, sure a lot of mnks can't punch that in, but it's godly when used semi-correctly. A simple example is the only people that are living ifrit-stupid-stun-resisted-ruption x3 is the tank, the healer, and the mnk. Everyone is going to blow up, because...they just do.

Cause sprint totally doesn't exist... Gotcha.

[Genesiser]

The other day on my lvl 41 mnk I did 102 dps on the chimera boss in the lvl 38 dungeon and that was without the limit break because the tank burned it for no reason... I'd say that's pretty solid dps
and I can't wait to see what happens when I get lvl50 with max gear.

[Atreides]

We don't need a buff, even a buff to the Greased Lightning timer isn't needed.
Some people just need to stop being bad and learn to play their class...
If anything I feel like we're too strong.

[Balboa]

Since monks are one and one specialist; why is it that we depend on hitting from the side, and back to do our max damage? Hard to say you're a one on one specialist when you don't look like you know what you're doing dancing around the enemy hoping to get that optimal damage.

This is going to suck when pvp comes out.

I feel the same way. In pvp, with people moving ALL the time (lol at keeping up GL), without reliable CC's/gap closers, with all that positional attacks to do decent dmg... uf. And mades of paper. Yes, I know the set skills for pvp will be different, but not the class mechanic i think.

Edit: BTW, i'm fine at pve atm. Maybe GL drop only x1 stack after each 12 secs

[raikage]

Long fight)) What do you think about Shoulder tackle, for example?

Shoulder tackles I does need a change make it a shorter cool down or something.

[neoreturn]

MNK dps is amazing at the moment you unlock GL3 at lvl 40. I have never been outparsed by any other class on my MNK. They are top dps #1, it just needs a skilled player.

That only means you are not bad player with decent PC and Internet connection. I heard the similar words from dragoon/Blm/smn too. They claim their DPS on the top too. By a large sample test, MNK DPS just ok. You are not 20% or 30% higher than others.

[Allyrion]

That only means you are not bad player with decent PC and Internet connection. I heard the similar words from dragoon/Blm/smn too. They claim their DPS on the top too. By a large sample test, MNK DPS just ok. You are not 20% or 30% higher than others.

Can you source the sample test?