Quote Originally Posted by Navnav View Post
Look lets be real here, no cap.

I can sympathise with you old school monks predicament. I used to main Survival Hunter on WoW and loved it to bits man, then blizz went full retard and turned into melee... I was FUMING, as were many others. Turns out they thought the only ranged physical class needed to lose a ranged spec in favour of a melee one when there were already like 11 or so. Because of this reason, I will lay off of telling you guys how giddy i am with the changes to MNK, as I know it comes at your expense.

Sorry you lost something you enjoy.
There is a fundamental difference between a job completely switching role and a job having something it has been known for removed almost entirely. However, in your example, you state that you were upset, rightfully so, however, what were other people's reaction? Did they all oppose it, were there some that looked forward to it. I have no knowledge of WoW except from 3rd hand accounts, so I cannot speak on that matter, however, if it was a vocal minority that opposed the change with the overwhelming majority not wanting it to be changed, then it is the same situation.

However, it is also worth noting that whilst Monk has lost most of its positionals, they are incredibly devastating to lose. There is no reason why they cannot just split the potency and apread them out again. 20 potency for every positional hit. I would even go as far as saying, keep the auto crit on Bootshine as long as you are in Opo-opo and just have a potency increase for hitting the rear. You still get the guaranteed Chakra stack no matter what, but it also allows for the potential to min/max damage.

We already know missed positionals don't matter except in higher skill content, so why not allow those of us who want to strive to be better be allowed to do it. It isn't going to change how the job plays, just a bit of missed potency here and there, which, in the grand scheme of things, is nothing.