MNK feels dismal to play and it's not anything that can be fixed with a simple patch.

[Powercow]

I'm a little bit confused by what I've been reading lately: MNKs seem to be doing really well in the new raid (the best melee dps, period). Are the complaints people have entirely to do with the *feel* of the class, unrelated to their performance? I'm really struggling to choose a main and, although I have been leveling MNK, I am discouraged by all the complaints I've read lately.

Numerically, Monk is doing great. This might hurt Monk's chances of getting interesting changes, because that'd involve having to re-balance them.

The concerns center almost entirely around the gameplay. That being said, if you like Monk, go for it. None of us know which jobs will be the "meta" in the future (really who would have predicted WHM not getting any DPS utility and being *the* meta pick for healers?) so just play what you like. FFXIV does a good job of making sure no spec is ever left so far behind that it's useless.

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Numerically, Monk is doing great. This might hurt Monk's chances of getting interesting changes, because that'd involve having to re-balance them.

The concerns center almost entirely around the gameplay. That being said, if you like Monk, go for it. None of us know which jobs will be the "meta" in the future (really who would have predicted WHM not getting any DPS utility and being *the* meta pick for healers?) so just play what you like. FFXIV does a good job of making sure no spec is ever left so far behind that it's useless.

Thanks for your reply. I began leveling SAM first, but found that it got a bit stale pretty quickly. Now I'm bouncing around between MNK (fun, cool animations/sound design, but worrying complaints on forums), NIN (fun, cool animations/sound design, supposedly not very strong at 80), and RDM (cool, great animations/wacky sound design, but have heard it gets very easy/stale towards the end). Being able to switch jobs on the fly has put me in a state of choice paralysis - I don't know what to stick with! MNK is super cool and is strong in the raid, but the gameplay problems pointed out by experienced players make me think that I will be disappointed when I reach 80.