Quote Originally Posted by alimdia View Post
They are not as bad as to say you won't clear if you have a monk, but they are as bad as to say you will have a much easier time if you take any other melee other than monk.
Exactly this. I think people get confused over a job being just viable, and a job being competitive in it's role.
Monk, PLD, and WHM are all viable, but as far as how strong they are compared to their competition, they're extremely weak. And I think it's rather unbalanced to have certain jobs lack so much when others in their role match/come extremely close to their healing/mitigation/dmg and offer much more.