Thread: 3.2 PvP: Feast Game Mode Discussion Thread.

Originally Posted by Alberel

A monk was capable of entirely shutting down everything a Summoner had beside their basic dots with ONE SKILL... If you don't see that as overpowered then you have no clue what balance means. If the PvP in this game was built on a Rock < Paper < Scissors approach then maybe it would make sense but as it was MNKs were the only job in the game with a hard counter to another job. It was completely unfair on SMNs and SCHs.

Originally Posted by Dimitrii

Aetherflow is on a 1 minute cooldown while Somersault can be traited to 40 seconds. What makes monk so special compared to DRG and NIN that you feel they need to be a job counter specialist to sch and to a lesser extent smn?

The game can't really be in a roshambo format because of the enforced party composition.

But even then, it's not like SMN is entirely SoL on options on keeping a monk at pay for even a handful of seconds to get their burst off. Though this does go back to the somersault change on MNK (Which even to this day, I feel its completely unnecessary). If the cooldown was changed back to be 90/60, it wouldn't be as much of a problem as it is now. A lot of their changes seem incredibly short sighted to be honest.