Quote Originally Posted by VentVanitas View Post
It's still unpopular now lol. Removing positionals did nothing if anything to make the job more popular. Anyone that recently picked up MNK already has or will drop it and go play another job like RPR. I mean don't get me wrong 6.0 MNK is almost acceptable, it just needs something to occupy your time in between bursts, better Chakra and more prominent Blitz. Three changes that can be feasibly made in a mid-expac patch.
They've slowly come up, but Monk isn't the new hotness and didn't look exciting during job trailers. What did? Reaper, Sage, and Summoner. Monk popularity has been higher than many jobs I've seen, however. But what I'd say is: Just remove melee positionals outright at this point, across the board. And fill in the dead zones of the rotation.

Or, just speed up blitz. 40s between each blitz with 2 charges is honestly kind of boring. Drop it to 20s and call it good while refining it. Puts the class on a 60s cycle and actually brings the class closer to a HW era Ninja at that point, where you do stuff every 20s and then kinda do nothing for 20s, which was fun.

After that, give it the ability to do a fast blitz on boss start to sync up the rotation and, boom, the class is (slightly) more interesting. Possibly.