Thread: Monk ignored for 4.1

Originally Posted by Lastelli

They ignore the english forums because we are not able to give useful feedback. People start useless threads everyday for trivial matters and usually the discussions derail to "this sucks, that is useless, SE hate this job!"
It doesn't help that more often than not people clearly have no clue about the jobs balancing process.


As for the specific subject of this thread...did someone really expect a overhaul for MNK in 4.1? Of course it's not going to happen. They migh tweak some potencies/buff duration/chakra proc rate, but don't expect anything more than that. They're just not going to change mnk with a patch.

There's been plenty of useful feedback about Monk, they've been getting it since 3.X when #deletemnk was the new trendy Meme, they just elected to ignore it in favor of other stuff. After a point, I and most other people can't be bothered to repeat talking points that have been repeated for years like"One Ilm Punch/Purification/Arm of the Destroyer/The Fist Stances are useless" with several paragraphs supporting it or feedback for the new abilities that's been similarly repeated like "Tackle Mastery is a bad trait because X Y and Z, Riddle of Fire feels terrible to use, and Brotherhood makes Monk too composition dependent." They've already gotten that feedback and all we've gotten is "Nah Riddle of Fire is fine, oh yeah GL4? We decided not to." If they go years ignoring feedback and brushing it off like they don't care, then of course people are going to say that the Devs don't care. That's how the devs have been acting.

And you're correct, there's nothing to suggest that Monk would get touched at all in 4.1 especially on the level that the kit actually needs to make our useless actions useful, that's the sort of thing that should have happened at 4.0. It's precisely because that should have happened at 4.0 that I think we should continue to complain about it. I'd rather they know we're actively discontent with Monk's kit, both old and new, than to say nothing and let them assume there's some degree of tacit approval from the playerbase.