Thread: Monk ignored for 4.1

Originally Posted by ErzaScarlet77

i havent seen MNK in such a long time now. both in raid and leveling

Most of 4.1's content really puts the issues with Monk's kit under the microscope. Skalla's second boss forces you to lose your stacks repeatedly with the mechanic where you become a Spriggan and Perfect Balance is never up for when you're back. The third boss of Rabanastre's darkness ability similarly, forces you to lose your stacks if the raid is too slow. If the Alliance is fast, you can stand in his AOEs to save your GL3...but also get a vuln stack and then lose your GL3 again in the next 30 seconds because Riddle of Earth will be on cooldown. Shinryu EX does the exact same thing with his charges in phase 1, and his final phase again demonstrates how stupid the fuckoff long cooldown of Perfect Balance is with the add phase>running across his tail>final phase thing. Either you start slow on adds and have Perfect Balance for Shinryu proper, or you use Perfect Balance during the add phase and don't have it for final phase Shinryu. It would have been greeeat to use a skill that would let us maintain our stacks while running across his tail, but we can't because Riddle of Earth is pointlessly situational.