MNK Rework is a great start

[ssunny2008]

This reminds me of when they changed Ninja and Machinist. Half the people were happy that problems with the job had been fixed, the other half complained that it "wasn't the same". You will never make everyone happy and someone will always complain no matter what SE does.

Of course you can´t build up something 100/100 ppl will like, it´s just not possible. But objectively seen, monk had no real issues and it´s a step back. It´s obviously a rework or tweak for lazy players.

To lose GL stacks in cutszenes was bad yes, but PB did the job to bring them back immediately. That was the only real issue which was out of players hands. If we look at the skills, only 2 of them head no real use too. TK was pretty much useless, maybe useful in 1/1000 fights to farm that 10 DPS more. Fists of earth... do i really need to say something about it?
Yet we have 2 of 3 fists which are pointless again. Anatman which is pretty much pointless, TK have become an off GCD filler, but this could be anything, it´s nothing special anymore. And with the changes of RoE you can´t use it well for special boss mechanics, but you can spam it on cooldown, so you don´t have to play positionals most of the time.

And if we talk about positionals, the last thing that makes the monk actually the monk, they have become pretty much useless. While GL is gone, the damage got increased, TK is a new hard hitting off GCD and chakra proccs way more often. Just look at the potency numbers. 30 points extra if you play from position X. So as example you have a potency of 300 instead of 270. If we only take the core rotation in mind, it´s like losing 10-15% damage multipliers only, if you play the positionaly wrong on purpose.
Now we go a step further.

- We all know that bootshine does the most damage trough it´s 100% crit from behind. This means that you just stay behind the boss permanently.
- If you ignore the positionals on the 3 sideskills, you´ll actually lose only like 5% potency in the core rotation.
- And on top of that, way more damage comes with the off GCD´s now since TK and probably the doubled amount of chakra proccs is a thing.

This means, that you actually can pretty much ignore side positionals, but you would still do more than enough damage to finish any savage content if you hold everything on cooldown and just stick behind the boss. And if you get in trouble with bootshine, you can spam RoE or true north.
Of course someone could say, you could´ve done that before too, but the most damage came from core rotation with positionals. Yet we´ve way more off GCD´s to compensate the changes with GL.

That said again, monk got slower and plays pretty much braindead. The soul is gone and positionals are not that relevant anymore. Of course some lazy guys do enjoy such lazy casual changes...