Quote Originally Posted by ssunny2008 View Post
- highly casual
- not really experienced
- "animation-lover"
- positional-hater
- class-wh****
- no endgame-raider
Can you just can it? Honestly, this is getting ridiculous. I liked older iterations of Monk. I like new Monk. I'm indifferent to positions currently playing it, yes, endgame raiding content, where I also don't care about "downtime" (5.4 MNK was far more boring than this...). I mained machinist in 3.X and 5.X but monk was always a close secondary even when I stopped maining halfway through HW and I still did the content on it. And heck, if you wanna talk about jobs losing stuff let's talk about machinist. I get it! And you know, it was miles away the least-mained job in both HW and SB (the latter for obvious reasons).

You have these super niche userbase jobs, constantly making posts like "Monk is Fundamentally Flawed and Needs a Complete Rework!" for entire expansions, and while usually horrifically melodramatically worded, like everything in this forum, aren't without merit. And...that's the "danger". To be reworked is to be uprooted. And yeah, the few people who liked the older versions are at risk of not liking whatever it becomes. To use my machinist comparison, I kind of enjoyed the ShB rework, but it's not what I signed up for and I lost interest. What I didn't do is verbally abuse those who did like the new version.

I'm not saying you're not allowed to feel distaste about it. Of course you are. I'm not trying to be a white knight either, I consider Monk to be still flawed in a few ways even though I chose to main it again. When machinist got a do-over, yeah...people said that they loved the new animations. There were many new people playing it...which was, for better or worse for the people who liked the older versions, the main purpose. I mean of course there were, it was the lowest pop job, duh. You're allowed to lament what doesn't exist any more. I get it! When people joke that nobody on the team plays Monk, I know why. I like the new version, I liked some older versions, I'd make changes to the new one. It's still janky. Give feedback about it. But, can you not keep attacking other people because you see them as a threat to any chance of getting what you want back?

The entire purpose of this post was about the developers commenting on how unnecessarily hostile the userbase's attitude was and you're being the epitome of that. Stop patronising those who like it, whatever their reasons, and express your criticism in a less toxic way. Do you think people will want old monk features back if their loudest, most aggressive supporters constantly crap on others and have an attitude like that? "Adults in the room" indeed, to whoever said that earlier...