Quote Originally Posted by Blacktestament7 View Post
I gotta ask. Why has MNK's speed been looked at as a gimmick to be shared with NIN?
I really wish I could tell you the answer to that, but all I can really say is the Devs desired it to be that in 2/3.0. It fit in quite nicely: Low dps with high utility, moderate dps with moderate utility, and high dps with low utility. Now it fits somewhere in between that, with the introduction of Samurai. I do wish that they kept the dot-scaling damage from Monk's Skill Speed that they tried out nearing the end of 3.0 though, it gave it a flavorful twist even if it was negligible. Speed HAS been Monk's identity, Hamon even says it himself in the early Pugilist quests, "Rather than trying to deal great damage with a single blow, he pummels his foe with lightning-fast combinations." This clarifies beyond the shadow of a doubt that they truly had no idea where to put monk for Stormblood and that the homogenization of classes is a non-issue to them.