Quote Originally Posted by Grizzlebeard View Post
Monk is one of the few FFXI jobs I didn't play past 20 but, I agree with you, it didn't exactly seem busy with skills. I predominantly played ninja, paladin, dancer, corsair and to a lesser extent bard and white mage. The differences in skillsets between some of those jobs in FFXI and FFXIV is massively significant and rather saddening.
PLD at 50 was Flash spam, Fast Blade or RLB, Sentinel and the occasional self cure. BRD at 50 used maybe 3 songs regularily. WHM had 4 cures but only used 3 because Cure IV could get you killed. Other than that it was pro/shell every 30 mins and remove a few statuses between cures.