Did Samurai replace Monk?

[Mysticdraggon]

yes, a lot of what monk had was cut in half and compensated with SB content, but that does not mean sam is replacing the class. however, i do have my own suspicious when sam was featured as the best DPS and that it was convenient that such a powerful class was available in SB. basically, as soon as they get a lot of people playing SB, they will either nerf SAM and take away the class's spotlight or (i hope) buff other DPS classes to have the same potential.

so if i have to say anything, keep SAM as is. its probably the only class that feels like your not just the party's "extra" damage output. instead, the SAM IS the DPS of the party and i wish that other DPS classes were roughly the same.

the only similarity between pre-4.0 monk and 4.0 SAM is the amount of de-buffs you can place on each enemy. in which most of these abilities, I.E ToD, was removed from Monk's utility.

....i miss ToD...

[Morzy]

yes, a lot of what monk had was cut in half and compensated with SB content, but that does not mean sam is replacing the class.


....i miss ToD...

And I don't get that. It would have been nice if SAM and Monk were neck and neck, competition is good and it would be kool to have more variety as which melee a raid team would prioritize. Which I suppose they still do now because monk is second best DPS (?) but not a lot of people like it anymore so... Yeah..

And ya.. I miss ToD too =_=. It feels really bland without dots. I always remember either needing to refresh DoTs or needing to use an ability that just got off cooldown but now... i'm just moving on with the same rotation. It's.. Boring.

[Morzy]

You realize MNK has brotherhood and mantra right. If MNK did the same DPS as samurai, samurai then would have no place.

You really don't understand how SE balances jobs DPS, do you...

It would have been nice if SAM and Monk were neck and neck

I might throw "DPS" around lightly but I don't necessarily mean Monk doing the same damage as SAM. I talked about competition between the two and that's what I want but there is no competition because Monk is a complete mess and got the worst abilities in this patch out of all of the jobs (my adopted opinion, argue it if you wish)

So no, you are correct. Monk can't be as independent as SAM in terms of it's raw DPS in relation to it's raid utility (or lack thereof) So please pull your head out of your butt and stop reponding for my plea of "moar DPS for monk" when all I freaking want is for SE to fix this mess they made and make the job fun again AND generate actual competition between two jobs that same similar lack of raid utility and use the same freaking gear. Geez.