Monk Identity and Blitz ?

[wereotter]

You didn't answer the question.
The question was: Would you play SAM if it had it's current kit, and had 6 positionals. Idenity aside...just the rules of the job.

I didn't ask to change the job to fit how it would work for you.

Weighing in as well.... but to me the answer would be no, I still wouldn't play samurai with six positionals. But there's more that separates samurai and monk than just the positinal attacks. Sure more movement would make samruai more interresting, however, there are also major differences. Monk values an extremely low GCD, a trait that it shares with really only BLM. SAM doesn't want to be as fast, which makes the play experience of the two jobs substantially different.

Additionally, I DID play samurai just as much as monk in Stormblood, however, with the changes to samurai in shadowbringers that nerfed hagakure into the ground, and the increased reliance in iajutsu, I found that the high pitched noises of the windup attack were causing me severe headaches and making me physically sick. I can't even play next to a samurai at this point without that problem and had to turn off the sounds made by all other players just to prevent this. So again, no.

All that said, if monk lost its positional attacks AND lost its speed, I'd probably go to playing dragoon where there is more movement, or machinist since at least its overhead window is super high speed.