Did Samurai replace Monk?

[SpeckledBurd]

you are trolling.... right? only reason people ever took monk in the first place was for the dps it had and MNK had Manthra forever, no one took MNK for that at all also MNK is the only dps that does blunt damage so they have zero synergy with any other job in the game. "but brotherhood!" WOO 5% PHYSICAL damage buff for 15 seconds every 1:30... yea real talk id rather be doing 300 more dps like SAM is right now who actually has synergy with other jobs

Correction, in ARR people took Monk for Dragon Kick, because it had the highest personal DPS the 10% intelligence down on it was critical to survival. In Heavensward, Dark Knight had the Intelligence down and it was better at tanking most fights because most tank busters were magical which played well with Dark Mind. It's personal DPS was also not sufficiently high enough that it was viable compared to a Dragoon with Battle Litany who buffed your Bard/Machinist (or both during the final Tier) or Ninja who had trick attack and aggro shenanigans.

[Morzy]

Correction, in ARR people took Monk for Dragon Kick, because it had the highest personal DPS the 10% intelligence down on it was critical to survival.

Indeed, I do remember the time when the gear lvl was just enough to where you could beat T13 BUT it was a lot easier with a Monk. Those days are gone, though, and so is that 10% INT debuff. Why they took that away, I have no idea.