Monk should it be "Nerfed" ?

[Xan_Kriegor]

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.

You do have a point. However, the data from other percentiles does not corroborate your point.

If MNK dps is only high because of its RNG nature, then MNK should not be at the top of rDPS chart when we choose to look for data at lower pecentiles in Savage fights. After all, lower percentiles MNK would probably be grouping with non optimal comps and, therefore, losing a lot of rDPS. However, at lower and average percentiles MNK is ahead in all fights. In some fights MNK loses the lead to BLM only at 95th percentile and in Leviathan (as you said) MNK just leads the rDPS chart for all percentiles.

The gap between BLM+Melee Role in comparison to the other DPS Jobs is really high at the moment. And MNK and BLM seem to be the most overtunned of them. It does not mean that MNKs do not have problems, I know they do and there are things that should be reworked. However, the MNK Job is clearly overtunned right now.