With the sprint changes, what is the point of Fist of Wind?

[RiceisNice]

I feel like while the other dps classes also got their dots taken away, they got something else to replace it. Like Ninja ninki, Dragoon got further changes to their rotation Samurai have their gage.

Monks got, well, nothing.

Monks got increased potencies across the board to bake for the "loss" of DoTs. It's more or less the same across the board because realistically, DoTs didn't really add much depth to their gameplay the were they are (specifically abilties like lead shot, phletomoize, fracture and ToD). Mind you that DRG was still considered undertuned until they further buffed their 5th combo hits, samurai didn't "have their dots taken away" since they were a new class, and rotation wise, MCH is largely unchanged even with the removal of lead shot.

Not arguing that MNK is well designed, there's still a few outliers that shows they clearly ran out of ideas for MNK (and a few other job abilties) and instead went the other way.

The most recent action we got that we can actually be really enthusiastic about was gained at level 54 with Elixir Field and it doesn't truly change how Monk functions, it just kinda slides between what was already there. There's a desire for something new with Monk and a large number of long standing complaints that we were hyped up to believe would be addressed with the action rework that just didn't get addressed at all. It feels like they've gotten to the point where them being completely unwilling to touch the core of the class is a problem, not an asset.

Quality of life abilties such as form shift and chakra are buffs to MNK's kit, since now they have the ability to maintain their DPS during downtime compared to having a ranged attack that interrupts combo sequences. However, the nature of GL3 does become a hindrance when they are unwilling to allow a fourth stack; all that really does is increase the dps discprendency of a monk who can maintain GL4 and those who couldn't, as well as their relative dps since now it's balance around being at GL4 the majority of the time.