Criticism on Stormblood's Monk

[Namingwayfinder]

you dont use butchers block as OT anymore, ever. u lose 10 rage everytime u dont path.

I do believe Phireblast was talking about main tanking, but since neither of us know exactly whether it was a main tank or off tank (despite the heavy implication that since SAM does more threat than diversion can cover, said tanks having to use more enmity combos would most likely be the main tanks, as tank switches often happen with Provoke/Shirk combo from both tanks, nullifying the need of the offtank to even use enmity combos to grab aggro after a tank swap), I think we can agree that yes, as an OT you really shouldn't be using Butcher's Block, at least maybe not unless your MT doesn't have shirk and a tank swap is coming up.

And 10 of Warriors gauge is functionally 100 potency from Fell Cleave.

Yes, I understand how the math behind Beast Gauge generation works in equivalence to potency, I've browsed the FF14 Reddit page and seen the math for myself, as well as practiced on dummies and on Stone, Sky, Sea challenges. Frankly, for anyone who's played WAR since ARR like me, this is inherently understood by simply playing the class while trying to maximise DPS. While I appreciate the want to help people understand min/maxer mindset and promote highest quality play from other players, I don't remember saying anywhere that Butcher's Block was the end all be all combo ender because it has 10 higher potency.

Path is up to a 90 (Zerk-IR effective 140) potency gain over Butcher's Block via the additional Beast Gauge generated.

Refer to the above quote. Once again, nowhere did I say I was the authority on WAR and my opinion is the only right one. In the last two or so months I have met many players though, at least in my datacenter, that like to make very generalized statements based off of limited experience, and I would like that to stop, as many new players (with the leaf next to their name and everything) that they spout nonsense to believe it right off the bat and never look for themselves, which I dislike greatly due to the fact it promotes both ignorance in the playerbase and is factually incorrect.


EDIT: Yes I know eventually the new players would find out for themselves, but I've had a lot of the new players in my FC bullied in level 50/60 dungeons for staying in tank stance and using enmity combos when they are brand new to the dungeon and not confident of their tanking and that really rankles me to see the discouraged from tanking when tanks aren't the most prolific class, and more tanks only make everyone's DF's and PF's fill up faster. And yes, I know I could have simply asked him to clarify, my wording was not the best, but hindsight is 20/20 and even in hindsight I don't really think I needed to be scolded on how to play my class, especially over what is, at best, an assumption on everyone's part(including my own) that we know exactly what was going through another person's head when they made a vague statement that needed clarification.