Two Months In: Will You Reconsider GL IV?

[Ariomi]

Fracture was 220 potency and was a DPS gain. It was monk's third highest potency GCD. Even saying "fracture was arguably a DPS loss" proves you don't know what you are talking about.

Monk has become an extremely dull job without TOD and fracture. Knowing when to apply fracture with tod/demolish/dragon kick/snakes timers was a huge part of what made monk interesting and fun.

Fracture was arguably a dps loss, as it delays the rest of your skills and costed too much tp. It was what 100 tp back when it was a thing?

Yes it was an arguable dps loss. Also if two dots, that you only use every 18-30 seconds ruin your fun, you should play a different game. Stormblood removed a dot from every class.

I can regurgitate how Warrior, Dark Knight, Summoner the DOT class, Machinist, Ninja, Dragoon, Monk, Bard, all lost anywhere between one and two dots from their kit. You going to comment that Dragoon, Ninja, Warrior, and Bard are dull without their dots?

[echo78]

Fracture was arguably a dps loss, as it delays the rest of your skills and costed too much tp. It was what 100 tp back when it was a thing?

Fracture had a higher potency then every MNK GCD but demolish and tod. It was a DPS gain. Learn what the HW MNK rotation was like before you claim fracture is a DPS loss. It was also only 80 TP and the TP cost was rarely an issue.

IMO those two dots broke up the monotony of the current MNK rotation and made it more fun, especially with it being a priority system and timing them to go with buffs or missed positionals.

Anyway, I'd love to see GL4 added to MNK but I can't imagine the dev's changing anything with MNK until 5.0. If 3.0 and 4.0 were any indication, its probably not worth getting your hopes up for GL4 in 5.0...

[Silver-Strider]

I can regurgitate how Warrior, Dark Knight, Summoner the DOT class, Machinist, Ninja, Dragoon, Monk, Bard, all lost anywhere between one and two dots from their kit. You going to comment that Dragoon, Ninja, Warrior, and Bard are dull without their dots?

The difference between MNK and all those classes is that they all got their class expanded upon.
DRG got an expansion on Blood of the Dragon
NIN got Ninki and an expansion on its Mudras
WAR can now spam Fell Cleave like it's going out of season
BRDS got their songs to use now as actual attack abilities that enhance the entire playstyle of the class

What did MNK's get in this expansion? Slightly more frequent use on Forbidden Chakra

[SpeckledBurd]

The difference between MNK and all those classes is that they all got their class expanded upon.
DRG got an expansion on Blood of the Dragon
NIN got Ninki and an expansion on its Mudras
WAR can now spam Fell Cleave like it's going out of season
BRDS got their songs to use now as actual attack abilities that enhance the entire playstyle of the class

What did MNK's get in this expansion? Slightly more frequent use on Forbidden Chakra

Dragoon and Ninja also saw their basic GCD rotation expanded, Ninja got an additional second string combo and Dragoon has two combo finishers per combo. Monk just lost a GCD.