Monks very weak. Need rebalance

[neoreturn]

This answer meens nothing for monk and it give no answer the question "Why Blackmage_players are trying to make their lovely class stronger and monk_players dont want to do same efforts??????

Blackmage's skills have no any issues- players just ask to change skills to make them more usable. Most monk_players are stupid enought to ask something like this. VEry sad

I have the same question. But I may have the answer too. Too many kids play monk and they just want to show you they are better by saying you did wrong. That's not the way we fix the issue. in fact they don't know what they were talking about. monk dps is in pair with DRG. none can claim which one is even better. But DRG has better look and better group skill, they also tank better if need in coil. Compare with DRG, MNK has almost nothing to win, compare melee with ranged DPS, melee is on the weak side which almost everyone agree. So overall, MNK is on the bottom. When people run a lot of pug group, they found monk is the least welcome job to join. That need be fixed.

[Aries37]

monk dps is in pair with DRG. none can claim which one is even better. But DRG has better look and better group skill, they also tank better if need in coil. Compare with DRG, MNK has almost nothing to win, compare melee with ranged DPS, melee is on the weak side which almost everyone agree. So overall, MNK is on the bottom.

Where are you getting these numbers from? I main DRG and I've never out-DPS'd a monk in coil. The two monks I've run with both consistently did 15-20% more damage than me.

This is of course balanced out by the fact that DRG buffs bard damage by about 15% (as long as the DRG and BRD are attacking the same target), but monk damage in itself is very good. The only thing I've noticed in monks is that they bottom out on TP a bit faster than dragoons.

The melee vs ranged debate is a separate topic but I believe SE hinted in the developer's diary that they were looking on fixing the discrepancy caused by melee having to deal with more boss mechanics than ranged classes. Your guess is as good as mine as to how they will address it though.