Why Monks need a Buff + Petition!

[Rhained]

If you buff us more i WILL have no alternative except to slow down my damage because 100% guerenteed ill gain aggro in some coil fights, its allrdy touch and go on turn 4.

The best suggestion ive seen though is that greased lightning loses 1 stack at a time rather than all stacks, that seems minimal but also would help tremendosly with consistancy.

[Kevee]

Monks don't need buffs.

They need 2 QoL changes.

Increase GL to 20s timer, give them a 100 potency ranged attack that refreshes GL.

[Awake]

ranged attack that refreshes GL.

All that we need really and make it cost a high amount of TP so you cant just spam it.

[MomoOG]

I feel a ranged attack that refreshes GL would be the boring way to go. Low cool down Shoulder Tackle (15 to 20 seconds) would serve the same purpose in a more skillful manner and be much more fun.

[Hachiko]

The way I see it monks need a few changes:

Shoulder Tackle should be a 20s Cooldown
GL should be 18-21 second duration
Twin Snakes should probably be 15 second duration

Biggest things, imo, are Bootshine and True Strike. As higher risk skills being the back target ones, they should probably be more worth using.

Bootshine should be changed from a critical when dealt from behind to 200 potency when dealt from behind. As your crit increases, it becomes less and less effective to use bootshine from behind, relative to Dragon Kick. This way bootshine still scales with crit, and would actually be slightly more potent.

True Strike, instead of having a 5% extra chance to crit, Should give a 5% chance to crit buff when dealt from behind. Or alternatively, make it a debuff that increases the chance the monster suffers a crit by 3-5% (Monks could use some raid utility).

They could use a threat drop. They're already riding the threat meters really hard, and they're the only dps class without some threat management aspect available.

And finally, Monks (and dragoons) could use something to make them not so succeptible to AoE. Not sure what, but even putting 10% aoe damage reduction on Fists of Fire or something like that would make a big difference.

[Purutzil]

Actually, monks dish out one of the highest dps in game. The issue is that anything that cuts them off attacking for to long means grease lightning drops and dps takes a good blow.

Monks need a Quality of Life change if anything so their damage doesn't get destroyed in fights where you aren't able to keep up a steady rotation. Without that buff dropping, they easily would be one of the top dps in game.

[savant07]

Actually, monks dish out one of the highest dps in game. The issue is that anything that cuts them off attacking for to long means grease lightning drops and dps takes a good blow.

Monks need a Quality of Life change if anything so their damage doesn't get destroyed in fights where you aren't able to keep up a steady rotation. Without that buff dropping, they easily would be one of the top dps in game.

You would need a DPS nerf if that were the case. You are balanced around having the difficulty of having to keep greased lightning up and having a difficult rotation. It's like asking if you can have your DoTs last 100 seconds cause that'd make your rotations easier.

[ChaozK]

You're also forgetting the fact that they have to be in melee range and have less defense than a dragoon

Thats not quite accurate. Dragoons have the lowest magical defense, which is the only dmg you should realistically get hit by (AOEs), physical defense is almost never a factor, unless you are tanking.

So dragoons are actually the dps class most likely to die.

[Franklin4337]

monks don't need a buff at all they are well balanced and can out dps most classes, you will notice a massive difference at 50 with decent gear.
You can't really ask them to change the game just because you feel under powered whilst leveling, wait until you finish the class and get the af gear before moaning.