Quote Originally Posted by Sora_Oathkeeper View Post
Across all 4 turns at the highest percentiles BLM is above MNK except in Leviathan, which has no positionals. Of course MNK should perform better there. To preface Monk's position as a dps you need to take into account that Brotherhood is RNG and comp dependant. At best you buff 6 players (2 tank, 2 melee, 2 ranged) at worst you buff 3 (2 tanks, 1 melee) granted these comps wouldn't be optimal as you lose out on party bonuses. The raid dps in brotherhood drops from 450~ to 180~(tanks don't contribute to it as much) furthermore, in the worst comp Monk's are 50% less likely to gain chakras over the best comp. 2-3 extra Forbidden Chakras becomes 1-1.5. Losing thousands of potency across a fight just based on comp. So now the Monk also loses roughly 50% of their TFCs in my E1S I did 17 forbidden chakras, worth 1.1k dps, half that is 650~dps going from optimal to non optimal comp is roughly a 900~ dps loss through no fault of the player. Nerfing Monk because of its RNG and party composition related dps is absurd. Monk should be at the top. Its position is fine, the only changes needed are SAM being higher and the other outliers being raised. Nerfing an RNG and composition dependent class is just ridiculous. If Monk's DPS was not RNG and comp dependent I would agree it's overtuned, but because of the variance it can have because of such factors I disagree that a nerf is needed.
Monk has utility, and therefor should have utility tax? Normally means they should be balanced with utility in mind. Wether you find mantra useful or not... it by itself should normally mean your utility tax doesnt get as much refunded and should not be top...