Updated Thoughts on MNK. pt. 1: Form Shift

[Tigerlilley]

Brd's situation had changed its game play entirely but even became Bow-Mage,tons of main bards're still stuck with the job because they're still love being bard.They accept the change,not give in the limited of mobility and doing awesome dps.It is the prove that we can take on anything if we're willing to adapt.

Actually, majority of the lifetime bards I knew switched to MCH to raid, especially during Gordias and Midas. They hated WM. Everyone hated WM. There were threads about how much everyone hated it for the entirety of Heavensward. Unfortunately, there wasn't much choice for ranged physical dps because MCH had Gauss Barrel which gave them cast times as well.
I'm not sure if you were here for the start of Gordias but there was a MASS exodus of raiders from the game (for other reasons as well obviously). I knew bards who quit because of the changes and have only now come back for Stormblood. I don't think it's fair to say there is proof there that if we ignore and issue it'll get better any more than it is to say that all bards accepted the change. A lot of them certainly didn't.

Now they've got their class back everyone has been commenting on the lack of MCH. The change to Bard has been praised to high heaven and people are thankful the cast times are gone. Bards Stormblood changes have really made the class fun again.

The problem with Monk isn't that it's changed, it's that is hasn't. It hasn't for two expansions. Every other role in the game has grown in role / rotation / skills / gameplay and all Monk got was making an off gcd now an RNG off gcd, a slow debuff, and a weaksauce utility.

They took away blood for blood, fine, but then they gave us a slow debuff? Why do monks get slowed down as a buff when Greased Lightning, the absolute baseline of being a monk, is to speed it up? Why give bards cast times when their identity was mobility? It's the same thing and that's why people hate it.