Quote Originally Posted by SpeckledBurd View Post
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Let´s face it, ppl complain about everything everywhere or want this or that changed, not only on Monk. Samurai for example is probably the most broken class in FF14. The damage is insane even if you doesn´t play that well. The whole kit has everything you could imagine on a melee class to keep up 100% uptime easily without a real damage loss. You can even adjust your rotation if its needed. But still ppl complain about this or that because "it´s not perfectly timed", whatever.

You´re obviously fine with the new Monk, but what do you think will happen with 6.0? What is in the need to change when you can play 123 and spam off gcd´s? Away from the useless abilities and being soulless?! Whatever will happen, ppl will probably complain about that. And tbh, i can´t imagine something real is gonna happen, because it would´ve happen already. 1-2 more off gcd´s? God please no... The bar is already filled and spamming some buttons on cd is no fun.

5.3 felt way better and objectively seen here is a pro/con list:

Pro:
- RoE was better to do badass mechanics. Would´ve been the same in the current content like E12s diamond dust/gaias rage or E11s cycles, etc... Now you´ve to spam it, so SE can´t even be serious about "please play positionals".
- Fists of wind was much smoother in the fights.
- There were less off gcd´s which put the player under pressure for max. damage output especially in the opener or at such badass mechanics where you can´t keep uptime all day long.
- It had a soul.

Con:
- You lost GL stacks when you died or in cutszenes.
- Brotherhood only effected phys. dps.

The other changes are more QoL things which were not needed that hard. After cutszenes you normally had your opener up again and dieing shouldn´t even be a thing.
The only real improvement came with brotherhood and i seriously can´t see how this class still needs a lot of work. It´s already braindead af and thx to the complaints the smooth gameplay is gone as exchange that we don´t have to maintain GL anymore. So what should happen?! Objectively seen it is what it is and any new stuff would just overfill the bar for no real reason.