How can you continue to ignore monk completely?

[Tigerlilley]

My hopes for Stormblood were less bloat, which Touch of Death and Fracture were not, and more variety of rotation, stance (Fists of Wind/Fire), and pace. Instead we got more bloat, and less variation. This is, though not by a huge margin, the most "braindead" form Monk has yet seen. And its certainly the most contradictory.

It's really hard to understand why we lost Touch of Death / Fracture and retained the still useless One Ilm Punch and Arm of the Destroyer. They might as well have kept Haymaker in for a laugh. Like I said in my OP, it's just an insult at this point. And I hear you on contradiction, Greased Lightning is for speed, nope RoF takes that away. Riddle of Earth and Perfect Balance is to keep stacks - but you gotta get hit and Perfect Balance CD is very long / Tornado kick <- what?

[wereotter]

It's really hard to understand why we lost Touch of Death / Fracture and retained the still useless One Ilm Punch and Arm of the Destroyer. They might as well have kept Haymaker in for a laugh. Like I said in my OP, it's just an insult at this point. And I hear you on contradiction, Greased Lightning is for speed, nope RoF takes that away. Riddle of Earth and Perfect Balance is to keep stacks - but you gotta get hit and Perfect Balance CD is very long / Tornado kick <- what?

They seem to be pruning DOTs in general. ninja lost mutilate, dragoon lost phlebotomize, all classes lost fracture, summoner had bio and bio 2 combined, and I'm sure there are others I'm missing.

As far as ignoring the issues with monk generally speaking.... didn't anyone else catch that this was going to happen in the trailer? Warrior of Light starts as a monk, sees the crap SE did with his job, and then takes all the gear he already had and becomes a samurai before he even gets off the boat in Kugane. Pretty sure that was their way of telling us to forget about our old job and change to the new one instead :P

[Leonus]

It's really hard to understand why we lost Touch of Death / Fracture and retained the still useless One Ilm Punch and Arm of the Destroyer. Though they did give Mnks a replacement for B4B.

Well, truthfully fracture was not Mnks. It was warriors's. I see what people mean though.

[Tigerlilley]

Well, truthfully fracture was not Mnks. It was warriors's. I see what people mean though.

Did you ... add something on to my quote there. Cuz RoF isn't a B4B replacement. B4B was actually nice to use. I hate Riddle of Fire.

[Leonus]

Did you ... add something on to my quote there. Cuz RoF isn't a B4B replacement. B4B was actually nice to use. I hate Riddle of Fire.

I think I did on accident, my bad.

[Shurrikhan]

Well, truthfully fracture was not Mnks. It was warriors's. I see what people mean though.

When a skill goes from usually a damage loss on its native class to always a damage gain on a cross-class user, it ends up seeming more the skill of the cross-class user than the original...