Monk Changes

[Sonya_Nillefrant]

Your formatting, grammar and spelling need work. Reading that is a struggle.

That said, I personally think that Monk despite massively overly performing is in just as much of a need of a rework as Summoner and Ninja. The reason being that it's extreme over performance at the moment is a direct result of the developers having a knee-jerk response to player satisfaction and play numbers for the first month of the game.

Monk's design is a mess, full of dated design principles that should have been removed last expansion and traits that build upon those dated design principles without fixing their underlying problems, multiple redundant skills for greased lightning management, several useless skills, a gauge whose design is rooted in downtime mitigation without ever being tweaked out of that design, and a playstyle that has only regressed from how it was in A Realm Reborn. The fact that it's performing so well right now is completely in spite of the way its kit is put together, not because it's a shining star of game design.

Yes, Monk does need to see its personal damage nerfed down to be below Samurai's or have everything brought up to its level, but Monk being the second most highly played job right now is an aberration and the moment that its brought back in line it's going to be at the back of the pack once again.

Sorry for the formating/ grammar and such, my first post, and typed out in a ranting fashion. Overall, i believe the monks core kit is fine. Everything lvl 50 and below works as it should. Its the stuff after arr thats just been tossed in there with no idea what they should do with it.

I believe bringing the other classes up instead of nerfing down is a more productive direction. It wont incur the wrath of the forums amd everyone is then happy, except of corse those who just refuse to be.

Its almost like the origional designer knew what they were doing, and then it just got passed off to someone else, who had no idea.