Monk needs to be nerfed hard. Change my mind.

[Tobias_Azuryon]

MNK is only top in the 2 fights at all percentiles that have no positional requirements involved.

First off, Monk can really ignore all directional requirements with the changes to Riddle of Earth and two charges of North Star. You'll probably have a 10 second window tops where directionals are involved due to every trial and raid having Groupwide AOE. North star, Riddle of Earth having almost 30 seconds to be triggerd, then second charge of North star makes the conversation of "Directionals" completely pointless in this expansion.

A dps like monk being that high is still unbalanced, regardless.

The point of selfish DPS is that they excel with the support jobs and that they don't have to worry about buffing others. IF BLM and SAM were top according to FFLOGs numbers it would mean that a selfish job that offers no raid dps utility is and will always be better than a support DPS and there would be no point in taking anything that wasn't a selfish DPS. Selfish DPS should be below, but only by like 100dps if that. Of course the reverse is the same too. No point taking selfish if the support is too good. So have a never ending cycle from both sides thinking they should be better. /shrug.

This would make sense if there wasn't already an objectively better kit on Monk than SAM, with more damage and more utility. Selfish DPS should be higher because that's their only job. Sure you could put a whole group of SAMs and BLMs and nuke stuff, but that's why a fight to buff utility and balance utility and buffs better to give them more of a space in the meta is being asked for. Monk doesn't have to worry about any of that because of easy raw damage, easy combos, easy directional ignoring, and easy upkeep of buffs and groupwide buffs.

But I assume you'd be fine with BLM being the best? Because it's been conditioned into people that selfish dps need to be at the top, disregarding that the rankings are taking into account raid contributions.

The answer to the question shouldn't just be "buff everything that'll fix it" when most of the jobs are already pretty well balanced minus some potency things on ranged DPS. Monk where it stands now is a really OP class and I've already covered the directionals being entirely pointless with the change to their kit in ShB.

I am fine with BLM being the best because they have Cast times, which can be interrupted, they have to move, interrupting cast time, they have to stay stationary to cast, etc. SAM should be below BLM so that BLM doesn't become useless and also because they can instant cast and their big downfall is moving out of aoes or away from the boss. There's more to the kits than just going "This does more damage so everyone will take it" without looking at their kits.