Quote Originally Posted by Sorzai View Post
yeah i didn't see any of them on his Hotbars, but it's just sad that they're turning them into passive skills. sure it's nice that we get more hotbar real estate, but do we really need it? i kinda wished they expanded more upon these stances rather than simply giving buffs. but turning them into passives to me removes the job fantasy, it's like how they removed cleric stance too, i liked that.
They did try in Stormblood to make stances more relevant... but it didn't really turn out very well. Problem is that with three options, one will always be superior. And for monks, that option will always be the one that raises your damage output the most. Even if they all did similar things, like one gives flat potency buff, one raises crit rate, and one reduces GCD, people will math it out, figure out which one gives you the most advantage, and that will be the one and only stance you use.

This was a thing we saw with Scholar too. Selene was widely considered to be vastly superior to Eos, and now both the fairies just do the same thing as each other.