Is it official?

[Astrophysx]

Monk wasn't nerfed.

MNK was nerfed. Despite the increase in RoW and Wind Tackle, the potency of forbidden chakra was decreased from 2500 to 2000, thus decreasing the potency of MNK's burst.

[Risvertasashi]

MNK was nerfed. Despite the increase in RoW and Wind Tackle, the potency of forbidden chakra was decreased from 2500 to 2000, thus decreasing the potency of MNK's burst.

They took 500 potency from one ability. They added 250 potency to the other two, netting +500.

People will construe anything into a nerf, I guess.

[Zojha]

They took 500 potency from one ability. They added 250 potency to the other two, netting +500.

Total damage is irrelevant, though, because healers can easily erase damage.

Because of that, all that matters is how much damage you can shove into a tiny window, i.e. burst. A character that can reliably one-shot once every 30 seconds and deal zero damage in the interim is far, far more powerful in this PvP than a character who puts out a consistent stream of damage but has no burst potential.

And since the damage got spread out with the change, it's a nerf. It wouldn't be one if we didn't have healers, but since we do, things are different.

[Astrophysx]

They took 500 potency from one ability. They added 250 potency to the other two, netting +500.

People will construe anything into a nerf, I guess.

I'm talking about burst. It just became a little bit more difficult to net 500 extra potency in a very short time frame, making it a little more difficult to burst. This is important, especially when you're facing healers. So yes, it's a nerf.

[Crit]

They took 500 potency from one ability. They added 250 potency to the other two, netting +500.

People will construe anything into a nerf, I guess.

You don't know how to pvp