Quote Originally Posted by Tsilyi View Post
I mean, if we want to get technical... supposing slashing isn't up (which I know is an outlier considering war/nin exist and both I believe apply it quicker than sam does in their normal priority) after a jump phase, monk takes 9 gcds to have full GL and sam takes 8 gcds to have all theirs applied. on top of that, if both PB and Meikyo are available, monk will have theirs faster because sam does not use meikyo to get buffs, but rather to burst (in general). I'm not arguing for either side as I honestly feel I enjoy playing any job, but the difference in time from zero to full buffs is not very different between the two.
Almost 9 GCDs if we consider also applying the dot.

Mnk applies everything and gets GL3 in 9 GCDs to include dots..