Monk 3.0 CHAKRA UNLEASHED

[Craiger]

That's not the point I was trying to make nor do I believe it was the point that Almalexia was making either. Here in the last couple weeks there's been a lot of "sky is falling" posts and attitudes which just weren't warranted. Monks weren't in some dire situation of the entire population jumping ship. I'm in full agreement SE should strive for balance, and generally they do a pretty good job there compared to what you see in many games. Many of us also agree that the buff focus on utility would have been preferred over a flat DPS increase.

Outside of the groups pushing the bleeding edge of content as it's released generally aren't going to force anyone to change jobs or roles as some people try to have others believe. The level of exaggeration recently has been a bit much for a lot of the job roles.

The reason it has become such big deal, is because PLD are behind DRK in DPS too, so if you went with DRK-NIN, you would actually gain a sizable amount of DPS over bringing PLD-MNK. Even groups that aren't world first groups would like to get that bonus DPS, because while it isn't technically needed for them, they probably aren't getting those DPS numbers that the best groups get... So for them, it would still be a challenge to get the required DPS for a fight, which a DRK-NIN composition could help with.

The difference between MNK and DRG was pretty big though... because, even with this buff to MNK, DRG are untouchable at the top. DRG are still up there on DPS, just slightly behind MNK, but if you add Disembowel debuff and Litany, DRG comes out on top any day of the week. So the buff was very much needed, and even now, MNK could use some utility to go with what we have, maybe some synergy with PLD, to make PLD more popular too. (Not saying NIN doesn't need any buff then too)

Also, I think some players overreacting to the buff too... It was a pretty small increase in damage, but some players make it seem like it was a huge increase. If you did 1300 on a dummy before, you should be doing somewhere around 1330 now. If you get any higher numbers that I've seen flying around, then you're doing something different to what you did pre-3.07, or you have different gear or something. EDIT: So in other words, around 2.3% increase in DPS, not even 3%