Quote Originally Posted by osutin View Post
I'm a little bit confused by what I've been reading lately: MNKs seem to be doing really well in the new raid (the best melee dps, period). Are the complaints people have entirely to do with the *feel* of the class, unrelated to their performance? I'm really struggling to choose a main and, although I have been leveling MNK, I am discouraged by all the complaints I've read lately.
Numerically, Monk is doing great. This might hurt Monk's chances of getting interesting changes, because that'd involve having to re-balance them.

The concerns center almost entirely around the gameplay. That being said, if you like Monk, go for it. None of us know which jobs will be the "meta" in the future (really who would have predicted WHM not getting any DPS utility and being *the* meta pick for healers?) so just play what you like. FFXIV does a good job of making sure no spec is ever left so far behind that it's useless.