Quote Originally Posted by Silver-Strider View Post
It's not like it's the 1st time SE screwed up with MNK, the entirety of SB was a testament to that. Between the Slow effect on Riddle of Fire and then the change to Perfect Balance that gave birth to the Tornado Kick rotation later on in the expansion, it's every clear that MNK is not one of their best thought out jobs and it's not as though Mantra wasn't also nerfed in the past with the justification being to make Nature's Minnie on BRD better by extension since BRD was absolute garbage in ShB.
Perfect Balance wasn't changed to birth the TK rotation. The TK rotation was afforded by the change to Wind Tackle -> Riddle of Wind and (in part, by RoF's slow giving room for double-weaves for higher-ping players and triple-weaves for low-ping players -- TK, FoW, WT, <GCD>, RoW...).

And it's worth noting that RoF's damage buff was huge for its time, plenty worth its effectively sacrificing GL's speed bonus to more than double its damage bonus over high-oGCD-potency periods, and offered ways to resync rotation for future bursts.

Late Stormblood Monk was odd, but far from awful, be that in performance or play.