Monk Needs a Complete Rework

[Renkei]

Actually, the only way to be optimal on Monk is to be padded by half your party by making them go specific comps. With or without positionals, we're always disadvantaged to other DPS because they don't have to be handheld by a DRG, DNC or SCH just to access their basic resource gauge.

Regarding positionals themselves, I'd rather they be addressed later when we actually have something to do on MNK besides wait for Chakra procs and hitting said positionals.

Monks do best when they are padding a physical damage heavy comp with no casters.

[Ramura_Sono]

Monks do best when they are padding a physical damage heavy comp with no casters.

Monks the only dps still tied to crit for resource generation, so it does best when padded by DRG (Battle Litany), Dancer (Devilment) and SCH (Chain strategem) in addition to wanting a physical heavy comp to maximize on Brotherhood's chance of generating chakra from weaponskill usage. Brotherhoods value is also lessened in a comp containing hybrid damage jobs like NIN/PLD.

Monk does best when it's being padded more so than any other job.

[Mikey_R]

Since no one corrected this earlier, having an extra physical for Brotherhood provides much, much less than the 1% main stat you get from having a caster. Just didn't want this misinformation to go unchallenged.

They did not make the comment in relation to the party as a whole, just purely based on optimising Monk's ability potential, which, obviously, in the case of Brotherhood, gets less utilised the more casters you have in a party, which includes magic phases like Ninjutsu and Paladin's Requiescat phase.