Is monk fun?

[Silver-Strider]

If you don't mind a class even shallower than SAM with its core mechanics reduced into something a further QoL change away from complete removal, then I guess it could be okay.

If said mechanic had any depth to begin with, you might have had a point. In terms of class mechanics, that of GL and Huton are both meaningless in doing anything but allowing MNK and NIN to be on par with other classes; You could literally make both GL and Huton into Traits and it would not change a thing for MNK or NIN. Mechanics like BotD and Enochian on the other hand, have very clear reward for maintaining their buffs. You could argue that GL and Huton help to build up Chakra and Ninki quicker but considering that you can still get those rewards without those mechanics, its hard to make much of an argument that those core mechanics are pretty lackluster as a whole. The only time GL was actually something more than a "keeping up with the Joneses" type mechanic was during the Tornado Kick rotation period in which GL could actually be used as a build up mechanic towards Tornado Kick in a semi-similar fashion as Geirskogul (sp?) and Foul, even if there was more to it than either one of those skills, but that died off going into ShB. So a QoL improvement to something that is now back to nothing but a simple "maintain or you fail" mechanic is better than just watching as time and time again we are punished for not having the proper tools to maintain our core mechanic as our 5 maintenance skills all fail to do their damn job in a practical sense.

Do I come off as stand off-ish? Absolutely because these QoL improvements were long overdo but now everyone and their mother is swearing, hand to god, that MNK is OP and needs to be nerfed now when the issue is more of the lack of balance on SE's part since they never took into account MNK with near 100% GL uptime. I mean, had they reworked MNK with these QoL improvements in place prior to ShB's and had adjustment MNK's potency accordingly, MNK might have gotten some actual depth to its rotation rather than 1-2-3 with oGCD in between and to be fair, there's still room for improvement on MNK considering how niche SSS and Tornado kick are, to say nothing of Fist Stances as well.