Did Samurai replace Monk?

[Morzy]

I would just like to point out that mantra is 20% by default now, without the trait.

As someone who played WAR from when I first started right up until the release of Stormblood though, Fracture can rot in a ditch.

It's funny. I read somewhere on a post earlier today where someone mentioned enhanced mantra for monk and I thought the exact words you just said. Weird how my fingers wanted to retype it. <_<

Right now monk is on a spot where its no good but not bad either, due to its base mechanics. Problem is that the new skills are either pointless or just a compensation of the class buffs the monk has lost. Gameplay wise it feels like a nerfed 3.0 monk with a teeny little bit of utility with Brotherhood.

Its simply on not a horrible state because on 3.0 was the top dps so the nerfs didnt send it to the botton of the chain, but is not on a good place either specially when right now sam is how monk has should be: no utility but dps high enough to be a viable option despite that.

Right now people looking for super duper high dps have the sam, while others looking for damage with utility can simply get the ninja. Dragoon is on a bad spot though, but at least nothing that some value buffs cant fix while monk is stuck with the mostly crappy SB skills that have come to stay, not counting that monk gameplay is basically the same unlike most of the other classes that have received changes alongside the way

I hope you're wrong. I hope they fix it. They removed the castign stuff from support, so I think there's hope. But yeah, SAM + DRG/NIN, why go any other way? :/ Monk is so unappealing to raid with now, too, I sure as heck wouldn't try.