The state of Monk in Shadowbringers (long)

[Carstien]

I love the official forums. The vocal minority create an echo chamber, shadowbringers edition.


Not one of you can say with any certainty what most monks want, nor can I. Most players won't ever see this thread, I only saw it because I was waiting for a queue and bored. For the record I'm fine with monk, there are things I'd rather have, I miss the tk rotation a little but instead of whining I'm learning how to make the best of what we have like a lot of other players. Sss can give you an extra couple hundred dps on the extremes if you use it well, I think that's pretty fun.

[Physic]

I love the official forums. The vocal minority create an echo chamber, shadowbringers edition.


Not one of you can say with any certainty what most monks want, nor can I. Most players won't ever see this thread, I only saw it because I was waiting for a queue and bored. For the record I'm fine with monk, there are things I'd rather have, I miss the tk rotation a little but instead of whining I'm learning how to make the best of what we have like a lot of other players. Sss can give you an extra couple hundred dps on the extremes if you use it well, I think that's pretty fun.

i disagree with the OPs main points, and it does show that monk players aren't all wanting the same thing, but even you say you find it less fun, also mnk is suffering more sharply from the skill treadmill design of SE than some other classes. They reworked some skills/mechanics then put them in the new 10 levels. You basically lose your stack control, then slowly get it back, lose gcds, then get some back.

point is, right now mnk is less entertaining for a lot of mnk players, which is probably the opposite of what you want in a new expansion.

[Xaert]

I love the official forums. The vocal minority create an echo chamber, shadowbringers edition.


Not one of you can say with any certainty what most monks want, nor can I. Most players won't ever see this thread, I only saw it because I was waiting for a queue and bored. For the record I'm fine with monk, there are things I'd rather have, I miss the tk rotation a little but instead of whining I'm learning how to make the best of what we have like a lot of other players. Sss can give you an extra couple hundred dps on the extremes if you use it well, I think that's pretty fun.

"Lol, I'm fine with the class so you all are the vocal minority."

There recently was a survey including all jobs for the JP playerbase expressing how much they were satisfied with their job changes. Monk was 3rd to last, only beat by AST and SCH, and I'm only sure those were beating it because the general playerbase for that is larger. To try and invalidate what we've been saying for 2, soon to be 4, years on why we think this class isn't fun and needs change is folly. Change doesn't come by just hoping for it. SSS can give an extra hundred DPS in the extremes, but so what? It's not fun to use; it's one more piece of GL management bloat that surely Monk needed with how sparse their GL management is. Take a look at the JP forums, even with Google Translate, you'll see that the minority are the people who are actually content with what Monk is now.