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[Miliant]

Uhh, Monk has traditionally been a very wind and earth element focused entity. FFXI's Monk is not automatically the traditional Monk, just like FFXI's BLM was in reality less traditional than XIV's BLM is shaping up to be. Traditional BLM does not have privilege to every element, and traditional Monk is very much elemental based.

If I wanted to play as FFXI's Monk all over again I would play FFXI.

Why do you assume I care about FFXI? I didn't even mention FFXI.
In FF, FFIII, FFV... in mostly every traditional final fantasy game I can think of that has an actual job system, really... monk didn't even have any spells nor any use for an mp pool.

As to monk being elemental, may be you're mistaking it with the monk job of FFT, but in reality FFT jobs have pretty much nothing in common with FF jobs.

[Betelgeuzah]

As to monk being elemental, may be you're mistaking it with the monk job of FFT, but in reality FFT jobs have pretty much nothing in common with FF jobs.

In FFIII the Monk profession came from the Wind Crystal, while it's powered up form Black Belt came from the Earth Crystal.

In FFIV Yang's claws added elemental and status properties to his attacks rather than increase his strength.

In FFVI Sabin had multiple Blitz attacks that dealt elemental/non-elemental magic damage.

In FFIX Amarant's Flair skills consumed MP.

Lastly, XIV's Monk does not have any spells either.