How can you continue to ignore monk completely?

[Tigerlilley]

i feel yoshida and his team is too much focus on new player forgeting that some player are here, did support them for age and deserve an evolution of gameplay after soo long. I can't be the only monk main player that did feel soo much hurt by stormblood and the combat system revamp, where nothing was bring, nothing was solved, everything did stay the same... why?

This is absolutely correct and especially on the back of the recent documentary which emphasized how much Yoshi's team appreciated the fans that were with them from the beginning. At the end of 3.0 we were promised utility after an expansion of #DELETEMNK and we got a 5% physical only buff that doesn't effect us. Sure, it's meant to affect chakra stacks but this is 1) RNG 2) Useless in a mage heavy party 3) completely overwritten by another monk if you have one in the same team. Ninja trick attack 10% to the whole team. How is this comparable?

So then we got to the balance patch, surely after the countless threads on Reddit and the discussions here that Monk needs .... something, that everyone hates Riddle of Fire, in last nights Live Letter I thought, surely, surely they'll do something now. They asked for feedback, we gave it. Yoshi says "just stick with it". It's one more slap in the face after a long, long time of promising change and delivering nothing.

Another thing that's insulting by Yoshi's comments that the slow debuff/ RoF is there to "not stress players" is how stressful the monk opener is now. You're literally down to the last 2 - 3 seconds of GL before you reapply after the opener, meaning if someone pulls aggro accidentally, or something unexpected happens, bye stacks. You cannot recover when you are literally punching through sludge.

I understand everyone is excited by Samurai, I understand that Samurai is the marketing job for $$ in new players for Stormblood. If they want Samurai to be the top DPS now then fine, okay. But couldn't this have happened with out completely trashing monk?