Quote Originally Posted by Sqwall View Post
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The MNK identity has slowly been eclipsed as every other melee has ended up pulling from it. In ARR MNK could be summed up as fast paced, constant positionals, high risk high reward with GL and selfish.

NIN released and MNK was no longer the fast DPS, NIN had the same speed as MNK but also had many oGCDs added throughout the expansions adding to it's fast paced nature. By SB NIN dwarfed MNK as the fast paced job.

Every Melee has positionals, they aren't unique to MNK but the constant positionals IS unique, and still is and that is being kept as far as we know.

ARR and HW(to a degree) MNK used to be high risk high reward, we were rewarded with being top of DPS alongside BLM. The high DPS was moved over to SAM and we were left with High risk no reward.

And naturally due to the above, SAM stole the selfish nature of MNK and we were shoehorned with an annoying raid buff.

VentVanitas is right, you can't remove and identity from a job that has none. MNK has lost most of its identity over the years to other jobs- apart from constant positionals and just job aesthetics.