My god, Square *head in hands* - RE: monk

[Sora_Oathkeeper]

When said optimization involves running third-party software that was actively used to try to blacklist members of the community, and the monk community decided that this was an acceptable state of affairs, then the level of surprise in the community should be a non-positive number.

Like, let's not sugar-coated, this is the shit that actually happened and monks should not be surprised at the inevitable result.

The 3rd party tool was not actually a requirement, you could use regens to time your countdown for a perfect anatman tick. The 3rd party tool just allowed people to stop asking for a regen every pull. Nonetheless, anatman as oGCD felt a lot better to use - it felt bad to clip the GCD waiting for a tick but it also felt really good to just get lucky. The worst problem however, which is STILL a problem is the ticks being server side, Anatman is still better to use in the opener even after the nerf. The ticks not being static forces MNKs to be at different parts of their rotation throughout an encounter. It becomes quickly evident just how annoying that is when missing GCDs in leviathan or having RoF come up during Titan's jumping landslide. The community was surprised with the change because many of us didn't think it could get any worse, but it did. What sort of developer actually wants to punish players instead of giving them a fun new way to use the ability? This is the sentiment over on the JP forums. Instead of fixing anatman to make it engaging and fun, they made it boring and borderline useless. To make things worse, their change didn't even remove anatman from the opener as it's still the better option. It's just not as good as it used to be making a PB slightly better by proxy