Why bring MNK to anything anymore?

[Bhearil]

When it's a 10-20 DPS difference I think we're really starting to nitpick here. I don't know why people think MNK should have the highest damage - they have comparable damage to NIN and DRG and bring DK + traited Mantra. If you balance for skill and make one class superior in DPS and utility to the others if you can reach the skill cap, then that class becomes OP because everyone will play it and DRG/NIN will be left in the dust. This isn't like SMN who is far behind BLM, or WAR who was far behind PLD in terms of tanking capability in 2.0. This is literally whining about 10-20 DPS because "I have to work harderrrrr ; _ ;". You don't get a balanced game by making the harder to play classes more powerful.

Because devs said that is their intention that monk is the best single target damage dealer job.

You can reason to why is it from many ways, but is a fact that monk has the biggest requirements for optimal performance. And remember that some fights give the monk the middle finger in terms of performance (steps of faith for example where unless boss has stopped is too risky to do lateral hits or just bosses that dissapear from the area for more than 5 seconds leaving the monk with no GS stacks). Dragoons and Ninjas in comparison have little problem with boss mechanics in terms of a dps loss (aside Mudra lag problem and Dragoon is geting some love anyways in 3.0).

And about harder to play classes more powerful sorry but if they are less or similarly powerful, then why bother with them? High risk, High reward instead of Medium risk Medium reward sounds quite fair to me. On the last official census monks were dead last amongs with warriors as the less played jobs so its not like everyone and their mother are playing monks