Monk Identity and Blitz ?

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Don´t know what you´re talking about. The stealth actions which never get used? Or that you stay 95% of the fight behind the boss?
Only Mudra is specific. Ninjutsus is what you expect from a NIN of course as much as i would expect really fast and movement based gameplay from a MNK. I haven´t seen any MMA fighter or similar pugilists which are like "Sry bro, we don´t move today. Let´s clap in our hands instead.".

If you´ve only one positional heavy class, where the whole rotation and even escape skills are based around that, then of course it´s an identity. Both classes are even the only ones with some kind of identity imo. DRG and SAM are completely standard just with animations. Caster differences are "cast - dot - melee combo". And we don´t even need to talk about tank or healer identities.

I didn't say MNK should be a NIN.
Also MNK being positional heavy is a crap identity. A class should be able to be identified by style, and theme as well.

MNK needs to identify as a MNK in its design as a whole. I.E.
DRG ? We might think dragons. Estinien. That burst phase. Eye of Dragon. Jumps autolock. Floor tank.
SAM ? Katana. Midare Setsugekka. Tsubame-gaeshi. Powerful strikes. Selfish, but makes up for it.
NIN ? Trick attack. Ten Chi Jin. Ninjitsu. Ninja run. Movement passive trait.
MNK ? "Oh that one job where you gotta get positionals on like every ability" and uh fists. *clap*

MNK has some good things going for it in EW though. The new abilities are flashy and make sense to its theme and design and MNK needs more of that.

EDIT: Reaper has more of an identity than MNK from what I can see in the trailer.