Monk Needs a Complete Rework

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Even when Bard's procs were based on crits, they were weren't double rng like monk. Bard had a 100% to proc on dot crits, with 2 dots ticking every 3 seconds.

The fact the dev's admitted they had no idea what to do with monk in Stormblood, and then proceeded to not put in an ounce of thought into the job in the 2 years between expansions, resulting in us getting more of the same garbage we complained about in Shadowbringers is pathetic. Shameful. If the Devs care so little about Monk, then they should hire someone from the community that actually gives a toss about the job. Or delete it entirely since they seem to be uninterested in giving it the same treatment as any other job.

Ah the error was mine then, but it's sort of splitting hairs. I was thinking of the pre-Stormblood River of Blood trait which was basically the Mage's Ballad Repertoire effect with only a 50% chance to proc on a crit but being up full time.

And I more or less agree even if I won't go into it again in this thread for the fourth or fifth time, though I'd rather they not delete the job. Monk is one of the original Final Fanatasy Jobs right there with White Mage, Black Mage, Red Mage, Ninja and Warrior. You'd hope they'd be able to do right by it.

Yeah, but the RNG would at least be alleviated some by the guaranteed Bootshine crit.

It would be alleviated, but the manner in which the Deep Meditation Traits work against Meditation as our "ranged" skill would remain. Even with it proccing off a guaranteed bootshine there would still exist crits outside of that, so Monk would still be relying upon a Scholar and a Dragoon in the party to perform optimally and have instances where it would enter down phases and be unable to make effective use of meditate.

The fact is Chakra as a gauge was never properly made into an actual gauge in the way that other systems like Warrior's Wrath Stacks were converted into gauge. It's still rooted in the design of a downtime mitigation skill.