Quote Originally Posted by Cynric View Post
Sigh.

Greased Lightning isn't meant to be permanent.

Twin Snakes vs True Strike is just decision making.

DoT's do a lot of damage for every class period.

Our Oppo AoE is weak because it has utility.

Shoulder Tackle isn't mean to give us the ability to bounce from enemy to enemy.

Our off GCD skills hit really hard.

We do a lot of damage really fast. Maybe not all at once. But it's still a lot.

Our ramp up time is dependent on how you decide to play personally.

Perfect Balance + off GCD skills+ buffs is a ludicrous amount of damage if used properly.

If you're at the bottom of the enmity list there's more factors that could be going on there other than just damage.

Most Monks people run into are lazy and can't use the job so people don't want Monks in parties. At least a lazy bard is actually playing an easy class.

If Monk got buffed any further it'd be more over powered than it already is. And yet Melee in general is getting some kind of buff.

The job is fine. The damage is fine. The only reason people don't think it's fine is because it's "hard" to keep up GL3(intended) it's "hard" to position (No it isn't) , It's "hard" to work in DoTs, and it's "hard" to dodge an AoE and trade a snap punch for a rockbreaker to keep GL3.

If everything that makes up the basics of the classes balance is too "hard" and that is what makes it weak. Maybe it's player error. If you want something easier, Bard is right there.
Hey, someone understands! And people calling you a troll is just a further confirmation they have no idea.

Quote Originally Posted by Naalya-Deix View Post
Please, stop talking about parsing in raid. Whereas it brings you numbers, the ff14app counts sumonner DoTs (for example) for the monk (for example) sometimes. SO yeah, I parsed 600 DPS ! (as he was counting for me other job parse ... fun heh ?). Plus, some auto attack are not counted in. As for DoTs, there are simed so "pretty accurate" but this doesn't eliminate the two drawbacks I spoke before.
I have said it TWICE already. My "numbers" come from the FFXIV INTERNAL PARSER. What do you think the numbers on the party icons stand for? That's your parser position. While we don't have access to absolute numbers, we still have access to the position on the list, and considering they wrote the parser for their game I very much doubt they made such grave errors in it, so you must be talking about a 3rd party app.

I also already said why people prefer other classes over Monk: Monk is not a faceroll class. I myself wouldn't count myself as experienced yet, despite coming out 2nd on the hate list more often than not.