Monk Needs a Complete Rework

[Mahrze]

Remove the haste buff from it and make it instead a monk passive, and GL can become an actual mechanic.

A passive haste gain is not a mechanic. It has no trigger. It has no decision-making. It has no unique reward system.

And it still isn't. GL being treated as a "mechanic" is exactly why MNK doesn't change. I can safely assume the whole reason why FoW is the only one that can go to GL4 is due to them treating GL as a "mechanic". And I have no issues if it was a mechanic that was rewarding, but it isn't. Its why we keep getting more and more abilities to maintain it and "manage" its loss.

GL can be much more by leaving the speed gimmick penalty out of it. Make the speed a passive trait and stop messing with how people expect the job to be fast. GL being only "power" related would still be a mechanic people would want to optimize since it would focus on what everyone wants in any number: do more damage. And an example of that already exists in BLM's "Enochian".

MNK has enough "penalties" on its performance as it does layers of inconsistencies within its job design. Wane the severity and number of penalties to a job that should be much more straight-foward than it is, and you're off to a good start.