How can you continue to ignore monk completely?

[Jonnycbad]

Their idea behind Stormblood was that you should be able to play any role job without too much consequence.
They also said they wanted to decrease the difference between "casual" players and "elite" players.
I don't see much of this actually implemented with Stormblood at all.

And MNK is like the 2nd best DPS after Samurai, your proposed changes would make them more powerful as a consequence. Monks don't need more power.

[YitharV2]

Greased Lightning is MNKs identity. The developers basically just said we're at the limit of speed and power they want us to go with GL

My interpretation is that GL4 would further the "extreme DPS disparity". I'm fairly certain they could have given us GL4 instead of Riddle of Fire, but the reason they didn't is because it's already punishing to lose GL3. And in my opinion, that's SE's fault for not lowering the CD on PB or giving us a skill to freeze stacks. I don't think that would necessarily make Monk overpowered. What I mean is it should be easier to hold onto stacks, but not necessarily guaranteed you'll never lose them.

Just be happy it didn't get a gameplay nerf like some other jobs out there. It fortunately didn't really change, which means it didn't lose anything - where a number of other jobs did.

If you think MNK is boring now, you should have thought it was boring in HW and ARR too.

I don't quite agree with that. It feels like the dev team focused too much on Samurai and Red Mage. I think every job deserves to get some love.

I do still enjoy MNK for the same reasons I did in late Heavensward. I just don't like how punishing it is. I know Dragoon has it even worse though. It's just Ninja and Samurai have the least problems with phase changes, and somehow that doesn't feel balanced.

[Zohnax]

My interpretation is that GL4 would further the "extreme DPS disparity". I'm fairly certain they could have given us GL4 instead of Riddle of Fire, but the reason they didn't is because it's already punishing to lose GL3.

I'd be more willing to wager it's because of an additional full-time 10% damage increase and -5% weaponskill recast. The struggle is maintaining GL and an additional stack of that wouldn't make it any easier to maintain that. If GL fell off a stack at a time, there wouldn't be a problem with maintaining it and Perfect Balance could potentially have some more uses aside from saving it purely for if GL fell off.