How can you continue to ignore monk completely?

[LunaFaye]

to be honest it doesn't surprise me. With every new expansion, jobs are getting either hit with the extreme nerf bat, or buffed to the sky without adjusting other jobs or balancing them correctly. I can't count how many times I did have to switch my mains, and mostly always a week or two weeks before actual content that matters is released. First it was PLD, then it was Astro, BRD now with SB I don't even know were to begin listing the problems that occurred throughout many of the jobs in general.

While I do like the expansion in general, I was very excited at the take of changing the whole combat system, even that gauge is a cute cosmetic addition, but one thing I wasn't very hyped about were the role skills. Now that they are released, I see that I wasn't very wrong with that, lots of the "uniqueness" of prior jobs have been stripped and their actions made role actions, some are so bad, that nobody would even take these roles since they don't do anything for them.

Not even 5 weeks into the expansion, we start nerfing cast times from pld as example, where was the warrior nerf the last 3 years as PLD was pretty much useless? I don't mind making adjustments, but nerfing classes and then re buffing them should all been happen during beta and not during expansions itself or 3 days before release of savage. And it's not just the pld so, anyways before I keep on my ramble, let me finish with this....

It doesn't come as an surprise to me, that MNK is being ignored, since their counterpart is the samurai and well we all know that the marketing department, did a pretty good job with hyping SAM and RDM up and that lead to a lot of sales, that without these new jobs probably wouldn't have happen. Good Business decision, sadly to say, it comes with a price, and that does effect the player base. Maybe not so much the new players, since all they know are the changes made in SB, but people that played much longer than that, don't find it much of enjoyment. Let's hope that can be changed into positive instead of making players have to switch their jobs. Just to find out that they get nerfed/buffed a month later, or find no "love" thrown their way lol.

[YitharV2]

Not even 5 weeks into the expansion, we start nerfing cast times from pld as example

Yeah, I'm personally of the opinion that we should not nerf unless it's truly necessary but it seems SE doesn't think so. I do feel for PLDs as it's sort of how we felt when they made stance dancing clunky for Warrior.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsC8...utu.be&t=4m55s

And I also don't really like hopping onto FoTM but it seems that's what MMOs like to do, so I don't blame those who do switch. Samurai just feels like a better Monk in a few ways. The DPS disparity in personal DPS, that was what Monk should have had. The fact that it has really awesome AoE (I mean Monk's AoE is still decent). And the fact that with Samurai there's no worry about losing GL3 (and their weaponskill speed boost lasts a lot longer).