To be honest, I've pretty much given up on Monk. I don't know if I'm in the minority with the people who don't like the MNK changes or not but I know that the ff team doesn't care enough to read these forums to actively change what they've done. As long as you have enough people willing to adapt to bad design and play it well enough that not enough complain, nothing's gonna change. At least, that's my two cents. MNK was sacrificed for SAM and at this point I've made my peace with that.