No changes to ninja.

[Alahra]

Please read again I never said they had no problems but they're sure as hell not as bad off as you say they are. Yes they need adjustments but SE will potentially chose the worst way of doing it for all of melee balance.

I wouldn't be too worried about that. They've adjusted melee balance twice before (2.1 and sometime after NIN came out, I don't recall the exact patch) and they were always pretty careful about it. The 2.1 changes in particular seemed insane at first (to me anyway) but things ended up settling quite nicely until the addition of NIN, and they settled again with a few changes to DRG and NIN.

I have a fair amount of confidence they'll address things judiciously.

[Pluvia]

I wouldn't be too worried about that. They've adjusted melee balance twice before (2.1 and sometime after NIN came out, I don't recall the exact patch) and they were always pretty careful about it. The 2.1 changes in particular seemed insane at first (to me anyway) but things ended up settling quite nicely until the addition of NIN, and they settled again with a few changes to DRG and NIN.

I have a fair amount of confidence they'll address things judiciously.

Oh I'm not worried even if for some reason they did something stupidly broken with monk it will just get changed or they'll buff monk again if they're still not wanted. I'm not in a world first group nor do I pretend to be on the cutting edge. Got sick of that in other mmo's
But buffing GL is honestly the worst way to go about it.

[Transfinite]

Something tells me that after Tuesday, the Melee static composition may become Drg/Mnk but only if the Monks' overall DPS from the new GL3 buff offsets the total Raid DPS affected by Trick Attack which is highly unlikely and it will most likely be business as usual in savage. We still have a wild card in the form of the newly buffed Astrologians this coming Tuesday which maybe the one to make the Drg/Mnk combination more mainstream.