Monk Positionals 6.0

[ssunny2008]

But there is equal chance that they will love and people will flock to it, so again lets stop making up hypotheticals to support our stance

That´s a vague statement. Of course noone knows what´s going to happen. But in fact the most ppl who showed up at any time have been in casuals. And casuals in final look like the following:

- They do play any class, but don´t put much efford into them. They swap as they want and mostly prefer QoL classes over real gameplay. Which last in the masses of DNC or healer / RDM in content like bodzja since they know they´re going to die and can rezz easily.
- They don´t play the endgame (savage content)... the only content where positionals on MNK need to be played.
- They do play EX content, but even there they don´t perform really well.
- They have no clue about good / bad or balancing, since they just don´t care and want to be insane.

Maybe they´ll like the new MNK, they´ll atleast try it, for sure. But i´m convinced that they´ll never main or try to master it. They play the game for other reasons than "having a mainclass and compete in the endgame". It´s more about "pewpew, glam and social features". That´s why any gaming company should give much about feedback from casuals when we talk about gameplay.

The issue is that Monk is by far the least played melee DPS job and yes the census stats support that. And rightly or wrongly the devs believe the reason for this is positionals.

1st it was being unable to play positionals, so we got true north and RoE.
2nd it was caused by greased lightning, so we got TK and anatman.
3rd it was GL again, so they got ride of it.
Now it´s positionals again, so they get ride of it.

Does it make sense that the whole class is an issue in itself? I say no!

Just because a class is the least played, doesn´t mean it´s a bad one. Ppl claim BLM to be perfect, but there are not more BLM players than MNK players. On is the most static and one the class with the highest mobility and both of them get highly rewarded or punished for playing well / doing mistakes. Any other classes are just way easier to play or in case of SAM / DNC self-carry classes where you´re able to perform quite bad but still having a decent output.

So far, it´s nothing but BS to get ride of MNK positionals and i promise that the player on MNK won´t grow. If anything, it´ll probably get worse since all the MNK mains got slapped into their face meanwhile the mighty casuals will always fall back on easier and stronger classes. The new braindead SMN will finish the holy braindead relationship between melees, ranges and caster. MNK will be lost in space.