New patch and still no positionals back on MNK!

[Mikey_R]

I've seen more monks leveling my GNB from 81-90 than I have in my entirety of the first two months of shadowbringers.

I've levelled PLD, MNK and BLM to 90 and got MCH part way there mainly doing current level dungeons, in that entire time I've probably seen 1 or 2 Monks. Even during the various roulettes every day etc, Monk and Ninja are the jobs I think I have seen the least. Which does happen to line up with FFLogs data. Of course, this is all just from one perspective, just like yours is from another perspective and they entirely contradict each other. As you should be well aware, personal experience does not give an accurate picture of the whole.

The most common consensus I have seen, which has been universal, is the period between PB windows being boring/lackluster. Positionals is an easy way to fix that. Just have the potencies we have now be the positional potency and then divide up the potency loss from SP and DEM between the rest. If you want every positional back, 20 potency on every weapon skill, if you want it back on all but Raptor, 30 potency each. This doesn't require adding new moves, the DPS is going to be the same as it is now and you keep the people who have been playing Monk for years happier.

Not every job has to be able to be played by everyone, there needs to be jobs that fit the whole spectrum to cater to all needs. Monk having loads of positionals was a niche it filled in the sea of melee that have barely any. Why should that be taken away.

[Ransu]

I've levelled PLD, MNK and BLM to 90 and got MCH part way there mainly doing current level dungeons, in that entire time I've probably seen 1 or 2 Monks. Even during the various roulettes every day etc, Monk and Ninja are the jobs I think I have seen the least. Which does happen to line up with FFLogs data. Of course, this is all just from one perspective, just like yours is from another perspective and they entirely contradict each other. As you should be well aware, personal experience does not give an accurate picture of the whole.

The most common consensus I have seen, which has been universal, is the period between PB windows being boring/lackluster. Positionals is an easy way to fix that. Just have the potencies we have now be the positional potency and then divide up the potency loss from SP and DEM between the rest. If you want every positional back, 20 potency on every weapon skill, if you want it back on all but Raptor, 30 potency each. This doesn't require adding new moves, the DPS is going to be the same as it is now and you keep the people who have been playing Monk for years happier.

Not every job has to be able to be played by everyone, there needs to be jobs that fit the whole spectrum to cater to all needs. Monk having loads of positionals was a niche it filled in the sea of melee that have barely any. Why should that be taken away.

Positionals are not going to suddenly make the boring rotation less boring. If that's all it took then you could simply just do them on your own anyways. Half the time I still catch myself doing them just out of sheer habit. I'd rather they just fix the job overall and make the blitz mechanic more engaging than it is right now over worrying about positionals that are getting phased out. I'd put money down that by the next expansion positionals will be mostly gone if not completely gone given how many early boss fights right now in EW have full circle markers allowing you to ignore positionals anyways.

So ya, I wouldn't count on SE suddenly giving monk back all 6 of their positionals when one of the biggest complaints about the job since ARR has been its over reliance on such a mechanic.