Quote Originally Posted by SpeckledBurd View Post
There's a legitimate argument to be made about Black Mage's performance (even though it extends to Monk and Samurai because the exist in the exact same niche of being Greedy DPS), but there is absolutely no comparison when it comes to which Job has the absolute worst kit overall. It had the most useless actions in Heavensward, and despite the action reworks goal being to fix useless actions it basically didn't touch Monk.
Well, that's not quite true. We definitely lost some useful actions, so they clearly at least touched the job, unpleasantly, and moved on.

That said, it scares me to think what even the practical solution to Monk's vacuous toolkit would be at this point, because until SE actually figures out what it intends for the stances, GL interactions, macrorotation, and elements within the class design the "practical" design path would be to pare down Monk to about a third of its current abilities, or just forever leave it huddled in corner between its trips to the raid park -- outwardly okay, and inwardly distorted.