The Monk Temple

[Allyrion]

It's not as bad as people make it out to be in turn 2 and 4. It's more challenging, sure, but in the hands of a capable player it still translates to the MNK harnessing most of its DPS and still pulling ahead enough to be worth it.

That being said, I understand that the disparity in difficulty isn't worth it for a lot of players for the DPS gain unless it's quite significant, which will pretty much be the case after the buffs to both DRG and MNK.

I know there are different strats for turn 4, but I can't imagine any where a monk is on top of a BLM. That's in term of the dps meter though, the number padding from adds is just too much if you've got a BLM that knows what they're doing. Monks, however, excel at taking down the dreadnaughts and are no less valuable for the fight.
Challenge? Honestly, I've found Turn 4 to be a tank and healer fight. Maybe this comes down to strat as well, but there's little challenge being a monk OR a blm in turn 4. At least how we do it.

Turn 2 is not bad. I've done it as a BLM too and I started wishing I was on my monk. Why? It's so boring, not sure how range can stand it. Only Ballast really bothers me, but it's not something I would complain about. Rather that than dying of boredom!
And yea, you can top dps as a monk on that fight as well.