Proposed fixes to Monk

[Mahrze]

Some people are never satisfied. Can we not all just say thanks devs, we appreciate it?

Thanks devs, I appreciate it.

It's not about not being satisfied. It's about these changes showing that:


1.- MNKs base design has always been so solid, very few things they have added have flowed well with the base design
2.- Most of these QoL changes made very obvious some of the issues and problems that MNK has been carrying for years.


The problem is that these QoL changes did about the same thing as every QoL change for MNK does: Makes the basic skills so good, the new ones are useless. And as you can see by the various replies, its pretty clear. (I know, Crafters say hi)

MNK was gutted and gutted hard and while now with no slowdowns we don't "need" oGCDs to fill in some down time. MNK is still the job who has various skills that are predominantly situational.

Since I read the patch notes I asked myself:


- What is GL even at this point? Clearly not a carrot anymore since its beyond easy to gain.
- What is Chakra even at this point? Still very RNG and easy to "overflow"
- What are Positionals at this point? You have 3 skills that can effectively cancel them 90% of the time.
- What are Fists even at this point? 2/3 have always been situational with one of them always ruling over all.
- 10~/25 skills for MNK relate to GL in some form vs 3~/25 relating to Chakras
- What is even leaden fist and why on bootshine only? Why not leave it as a trait?
- What is Enlightenment even? We had Howling Fist serving the same purpose.


I can go on, (I really can) because I have always played MNK since I started this game 5 years ago and played it every expansion and its always down to basic MNK 2.0, and the only things that have come to the job that have added something new to the job imo have been: Four Point Fury, Elixir Field, Chakras(mixed feelings since its just a charged blow) and RoW:GL4 Kai is all we've "really" gotten since 2.0.