Controversioal Changes to Monk

[dezzmont]

It's good to see I'm not the only one. And I for one welcome it with open arms.

It's time. Hopefully SE see's that too. We can only hope

While I think the MCH change was good for giving it some actual heat (heh) in terms of a thing to look forward to in the rotation (the old one just was stressful and annoying and didn't give enough OOMF to feel like a reward) overall I don't think the job is thaaat great. It is definitely a better framework for sure but it really needs some mechanical love. I think it is a great example of A: The job feeling good being more important than it being good mechanically, and B: That still not being enough, and both sides of it needing to actually work towards each other.

It is an infinite step up, don't get me wrong, because old MCH was really bad in many ways (a job, for example, being hardcore ping limited to the extent old MCH was should never ever EVER happen), but the ideal outcome here is something other than 'MCH rework but Monk.'

Really what they need to do is look at what is actually good about Monk (In my opinion, it is the way its combos sorta flow about, and how it feels good to attack really fast) and iterate on that, and remove the elements that aren't great or are causing issues. Monk definitely suffered from not being itterated on really as a job and just getting endless patches to GL in order to make it remotely functional in XIV's encounter design for essentially no reward of depth or complexity (Monk is not black mage and you can't design an ability around 'minimum times to not attack' on a job with free movement and no 'wind ups' that doesn't feel like an arbitrary punishment), which is part of why it is so barren and feels almost like a 2.0 job, while almost every other job actually got to refine and further purify what people actually like about them.