Monk Needs a Complete Rework

[MartaDemireux]

It certainly feels like a not fully thought or implemented idea. A bandaid rather than a transplant.

That's because this is a bandaid. It's a really big one but not a total complete rework. It will be further adjusted at 6.0 and this is somewhat of a hint at the direction they may take. It's most likely that this is the direction 6.0 was going to take MNK in already but they're having to implement it early with the abilities currently available. Job adjustments and reworks are likely already fully thought and planned out this close to a new expansion- potentially even in balance testing phases.

If they removed the fist stances without being able to add in new abilities to replace them, they'd probably get a lot of flack. New abilities are a selling point for expansions, so it's likely that SE PR won't let them implement new abilities early. Kind of like how around this point in SBs life they said WHM was getting fixed to be competitive with other healers but all they could really do at the time was adjust the effects of current abilities - namely massively boost Assize potency. But when ShB came out we saw WHM's entire job gauge reworked and the addition of Misery which helps to lessen the impact of lost DPS from GCD heals which basically mirrored their SB patch goal.