Monk should it be "Nerfed" ?

[Exiled_Tonberry]

Look at history repeating itself.
"Nerf the strongest and buff the weakest!"
Now the weakest are OP and the strongest are garbage until the next expansion where they'll be reworked...

[Akiudo]

Look at history repeating itself.
"Nerf the strongest and buff the weakest!"
Now the weakest are OP and the strongest are garbage until the next expansion where they'll be reworked...

to be fair, that happening is on square. I might preface this next paragraph with the notion that i don't think mnk should be nerfed, at absolute "worst" other classes should get something like riddle of earths damage reduce for themselves but damage wise someone has to be at the top, there is zero reason this someone shouldn't be monk (talking raid dps here, not personal dps) however if everything else being equal the best class is 10% above the worst class than square should aim to get this discreptancy gets closer to 5%,3%,2%, if what is the strongest class today suddenly is in the bottom 3 while at the same time a middle of the pack class advances to topspot that simply means square overdid it, which brings me back to my original point. there is zero reason monk cant be the best dps, unless every class is exactly the same one class simply has to be, what squares job in all of this is to keep the discrepancies between classes in a reasonable range

edit:

RoE is only OP because the raids allow it to be. E2S has an AoE almost every minute making it easy to use. However, E1S needs more planning. If you want to nerf it in some way, remove the initial 30s from RoE and make it 10 or 15s but earth's reply should still remain 30s as a reward for a well timed RoE. Moving on to E3S, RoE is redundant there's no positionals, and for 50% of E4S there is also no positionals. Of course a Monk is going to excel when no positionals are needed, and so they should that's their gimmick. People act like RoE is 100% uptime or something while the other dps have 2 to 3 positionals max. It's not, and does require actual planning to use to get the most out of it. For years DRG and NIN were overtuned and absolutely devastated the balance, yet there wasn't this much outrage at those, suddenly Monk's back to being king again and everyone cries wolf as if it's some sort of travesty and unfair. Welcome to FFXIV where there will ALWAYS be a top job

people vastly overestimate both the difficulty to hit most (not all, you may miss some for sure) positionals aswell as the effect if you miss some, if you do nothing but stand at the bosses back not once moving to the side and pressing true north on cooldown this will cost you like 200 dps at 90% which still leaves them at a comfy 1300 dps above every ranged