It's time to stand up for us Monks.

[Daega]

Please end the ridiculous looking scissor, hook, blade, and needle weapons. Even the knuckle weapons look so protruded and unnatural. Please give us the option to have invisible weapons like the option for the helmet, or make weapon that go ON the hand instead of IN them. EX: the AF1 Gloves look very familiar to a weapon and look amazing. Monks are revered for being strict masters of the body. This is evident in the skills that are used and the body actions. The weapons just make them look like puppets or Freddy Crueger(sp). Give us some dignity please.

And yes stop being lazy with armor layouts and stop copy pasta everything....Please.

Thank you

[Shaddai]

Finally people are speaking out. I was beginning to think I was the only one bothered immensely by the design choices SE made particularly for Monks. I feel like SE tends to look at all the other classes but throws us Monks under the bus HARD.

[Symon17]

I feel your pain, but I think casters are in an even worse place. Every single piece of gear you get is a long grandma dress. Seriously, as a guy the design style starts to get old really fast, but it's impossible for the designers to understand anything other than "magic powers = grandma dress". At least monk does get some athletic/vaguely masculine armor choices, and I've always thought the original monk af gear was the nicest.

[Boxworm]

Sorry man but he looks like a circus performer. Here are some examples of monks.

Are... are you serious?

That's like saying chocobos aren't REAL mounts because OTHER games have horses. While I respect your opinion that male Monk equipment should look more 'manly' -- I have several friends who have said the same thing -- to say that they are 'not Monks' is absurd. This game belongs to Square Enix, as does the realm of Eorzea, as well as all the other realms featured in past FF games. Simply put, SE can decide the style of Monks in their worlds. It doesn't make them fake Monks. It makes them Monks designed by SE.

Why not take inspiration from those Monks that you consider to be more aesthetically pleasing, and use it to design your own custom look? As others said, that's exactly what glamour is for. You don't want to look like all the other Monks in Idyllshire anyways, do you?

[Joeymtl]

+1 for OP.

I think male monk gear and monk weapons look pretty bad in general.

[alsims2007]

All monk weapons are terrible

[Shaddai]

Stuff

If you call something a very general name people will expect some semblance of the name. Using the name "Monk" comes with an entire culture and several styles. As such I assumed some sort of style within those boundaries associated with that name. SE is free to design as they wish of course and was not saying to remove old gear. I am asking for new gear to be more along the lines of actual Monks. I do not consider the current gear to resemble Monks at all. The closest thing to it is the AF1 gear which has a martial art style to it. I also did not call the Fake Monks. They are only Monks in name only as well as gameplay wise to a certain degree. I have all Monk gear only AF1 is the closest thing to a Monk as well as the pvp power rangers gear. The 180 pvp chest is nice but not very monk ish but nice none the less. I am no stranger to glamour. I have pretty much all the gear and it's why i made this thread lol.

[Allyrion]

If you call something a very general name people will expect some semblance of the name. Using the name "Monk" comes with an entire culture and several styles. As such I assumed some sort of style within those boundaries associated with that name. SE is free to design as they wish of course and was not saying to remove old gear. I am asking for new gear to be more along the lines of actual Monks. I do not consider the current gear to resemble Monks at all. The closest thing to it is the AF1 gear which has a martial art style to it. I also did not call the Fake Monks. They are only Monks in name only as well as gameplay wise to a certain degree. I have all Monk gear only AF1 is the closest thing to a Monk as well as the pvp power rangers gear. The 180 pvp chest is nice but not very monk ish but nice none the less. I am no stranger to glamour. I have pretty much all the gear and it's why i made this thread lol.

FF's MNKs have a heavy Indian influence mixed into the Chinese Shaolin type monk and Japanese martial art forms.
You can see this in the aesthetics and Job skills.
That's what makes a FF MNK distinct. And yea, FF has enough of a legacy on their Jobs that it should pull from its own icons not general ones.

The male version of the AF should've looked like Yang's After years though (if not just bareback with tattoos).
Like this:



Many of the Job names are general, but FF versions have been refined to be very distinct from those general meanings.
They should stay true to that legacy while also improving upon it and adapting appropriately.

That said, the weapons could definitely be less Indian based. They weren't even like that in previous FF's anyway (most were just barefisted anyway).

[Fue]

They just need to make barehanded an option.

[Juen]

I completely agree with you guys! I never really had desire to play MNK because I didn't really like most of their weapon designs and armor so I chose NIN because the daggers looked so cool. The one thing I do love about MNKs is the stance females have compared to male. Personally, I would LOVE MNKs to have a weapon that is just their hands being bandaged up similar to rocklee from naruto or ryohei from hitman reborn.