Is that some sort of "early access" joke ?

[TheMax1087]

Why not reaching lvl 70 first and find a proper rota before spreading doom and gloom? : /

Monk gets 0 rotational skills from 50-70. Anyone who knew how to play monk in 2.0 already knows how to play monk in 4.0. People thinking you have to play monk at 70 to know its been nerfed badly most obviously have no idea what they are talking about.

[DPZ2]

So from the first leaked tooltips, to early access, MNK looks to be far behind the other DPS. From the beginning people've been telling us to "calm down" and "it's not the final build".

Welcome to the world of the 3.x Bard.

It does get better, but probably not until SE sees actual numbers in dungeon and raid instances ... which is when such things tend to get adjusted.

[magnanimousCynic]

Why not reaching lvl 70 first and find a proper rota before spreading doom and gloom? : /

Except SB didn't change Monk's rotation at all. All it did was give us RNG Chakra generation making us spam Forbidden Chakra more. If anything, our rotation got SIMPLER. No ToD to keep up. No Fracture to sometimes keep up. No need to worry about B4B killing you due to using at the wrong time.

Tackle Mastery has no impact on our rotation whatsoever. Wind Tackle is mostly pointless since MNK can now use Sprint, unless MNK really needs a 2nd tackle for some reason. Earth Tackle pushes targets AWAY from us, meaning we get less uptime. Fire Tackle will always be the one to use since it's increased damage.

Riddle of Earth has no effect on rotation. And if you DO try to purposefully proc it then you're putting unneeded strain on healers.

Riddle of Fire lowers our attack speed for a damage buff. Again, no actual changes to rotation here, besides making it slower whenever it's up.

Brotherhood just lets us use Forbidden Chakra more often. Spamming it more often isn't really a rotation change.



So where's the rotation changes?

[Neela]

Noone of you have reached lvl 70 yet, have you? Nor compared your balance to other cls' with hardfacts... everything is based on theorycrafting - I can't understand why everybody is that hysteric after the first day not just you but nearly every other cls as well - balancing or either unbalancing only will be shown if several grp constaltions have been tried out in a serious raid environment until than its way to early to judge anything for real.

edit: personally I think monks will turn out okay like drg did in hw- at least it's one of the promoted jobs for SB aside the new ones. Would be kinda unlogical if it turns out that they are lost on the bottom dps-wise. But that's just me...