Quote Originally Posted by SleeeeeeepySleeeeeeep View Post

This is why we have a forum absolutely filled with pissed off players. Anyone who is dedicated and likes your game are pissed off. SMN, NIN, SAM, MCH are not happy. MNK has been pissed off for months already. Look over to the other forum.
I don't really agree with new Monk being an example of "dumbed down job design". You guys are shooting yourselves in the foot if you keep doing that imo. I feel for people who miss their old job but Monk was criticized for years in its old design so it was obvious that eventually it would get a major redesign.

Current Monk has actual skill expression, actual options for openers and rotations depending on the fight or your preferred playstyle, an interesting and busy burst phase. The new PB is a great extension of the job's focus on form GCDs. I also like that it still has SSS since it is a skill that is there to be a tool for skilled players when they need it. The team will be like "Welp guys I guess Monk is too complex for the playerbase, let's streamline for them so it's more approachable"

Is it perfect? No of course not, the job doesn't have enough to do between burst phases. And skills like ROW and anatman are pure filler. They should replace ROW with something that gives you more to do outside of burst rather than a kinda funny DPS cooldown. The loss of positional contributed to this problem but that is something I can reconcile with since positionals plus beast chakras would be a lot to ask of many players. I also understand that the fight design team doesn't want to have to design encounters while having to consider that one of jobs has to do a positional every single GCD. Maybe a middle ground would be for PB to eliminate positional requirements and re-add them to some or all GCDs. That or something else to add to downtime. I think current Monk design is more liked than people on this forum would lead you to believe but please use this energy on jobs that actually are too dumbed down before they take the skill expression out of EW Monk.