Quote Originally Posted by CelestiCer View Post
Not to turn the thread into a MNK class lecture, but I only play SAM and I am BiS aside from one Twine, and MNK would be right up there to swap for and i even consider it. What happened to MNK if you don't mind me asking if its okey if you can tell me cause me only playing SAM i have no idea what happened to MNK
Basically mnk was one of the last bastions of skill expression in the game with its positional heavy gameplay. It was a job for people who like to keep improving from fight to fight, it had a lot of ogcds while still being fast. It was a very niche job that go gutted in 5.4 with the removal of greased lightning management for the prep for a rework in EW. The media tour build was something that the mnk playerbase was willing to test, since we would have a new resource to manage (blitz) but it would come at the cost of removing positionals on twin snakes and true strike, as the devs said that it was because they were find that people were struggling to hit positionals in the burst. Fast-forward to EW launch and come to find out that they removed the dragon kick and bootshine positional requirements before we even got the chance to test it. This to a lot of long time mnk players (myself included) was a slap in the face as the rotation is incredibly boring without positionals between burst. Along with the fact that they turned a lot of our ogcds into gcds so that their is nothing to fill up the very long downtime between burst besides forbidden chakra, which is based on rng crits. This caused even more mnks to quit playing (as seen by the fflogs numbers, mnk is the 2nd least played job in the game at all levels of content).