Why bring MNK to anything anymore?

[Craiger]

Funny how DRG fell out of the view in the past few pages, all these NIN vs MNK now - I guess we just have to nerf NIN more! /sarcasm

Well, NIN's are too good at the moment IMO, even after their nerf... They beat MNK on both their own DPS, and with the DPS they give to the group, they outperform MNK heavily. DRG too ofc, who still doesn't have any utility to speak of.

What I want to see in 3.0, is that all melee DPS jobs have similar total group DPS, so that includes what DRG and NIN gives you with their buff/debuff... (and DRG getting some more utility)

So, MNK has the highest ST DPS by a margin, followed by DRG and NIN pretty close together.

EDIT: I know MNK has good utility for your group(at least in early progression), but it hardly makes up for NIN's added DPS and Goad