Monk Needs a Complete Rework

[3ureka]

On the off-chance that Square does use fflogs as a metric to gauge monk participation in content (I don't think they could/would officially say so with their stance on 3rd party programs), the changes I think most of us would like to see will take longer than a few weeks to implement.

Edit: But I'm down for even an announcement that they'll take another look at monk.

[Powercow]

Edit: But I'm down for even an announcement that they'll take another look at monk.

The last time we got an announcement that Monk was going to get looked at, Anatman was put on the GCD. The time before that, we lost everything that made the Tornado Kick rotation. The only thing I'd have to look forward to in regards to an announcement for Monk changes is a morbid curiosity on what else they could possibly do to it.

[SpeckledBurd]

On the off-chance that Square does use fflogs as a metric to gauge monk participation in content (I don't think they could/would officially say so with their stance on 3rd party programs), the changes I think most of us would like to see will take longer than a few weeks to implement.

Edit: But I'm down for even an announcement that they'll take another look at monk.

They wouldn't need to, they have their own metrics on exactly how many people are playing what job within a time frame. FFlogs has just been mentioned because it's one of the only metrics for tracking job use the players have.

As for how long they've known, that's anyone's guess. I'd speculate that Monk would have seen an abrupt drop in plays immediately after 5.1 when it was no longer the strongest DPS, but the devs really should have something in the pipeline in terms of Monk revisions after the launch reception was abysmal to say the least.