Thread: What job changes are you least looking forward to in 6.0?

Originally Posted by Sold0ut

Monk.

Monk has a rework that seems great at first, but that was also the case for Stormblood Monk and Shadowbringers Monk.

To be fair, Shadowbringers Monk never looked good.

"Yay, we get a 3rd AoE!" (Guess we're losing effective potency on Rockbreaker and therefore any reason to use Perfect Balance for burst AoE.)
"Yay, we get an AoE spender!" (Guess we're no longer getting Chakra proc chances per enemy hit during Brotherhood.)
"Yay, we get a... immobile GL builder?" (Guess PB's getting nerfed and/or we're losing RoW.)

All the buff timings do not line up with Monk's strongest moments, or raid wide buff windows.

This doesn't actually annoy me, so long as we're balanced accordingly, as it really just means we'd be thereby slightly overbalanced in low-man scenarios and, by nature of being balanced around desync, less screwed over by a raid buffer dying.

Fist stances going away just takes away gameplay variety on Monk.

Agreed. I could see FoF going away, as it has no reason to exist so long as one can turn off FoW or FoE, while FoW and FoE each inflict a small damage penalty for a greater than current movement speed or mitigation bonus.

All the tanks seem fine to me with the exception of DRK, I do not look forward to his non-existent changes. Bard and machinist look almost the same to me so there is nothing exciting there. I also find scholars extremely boring to play and I don't find new changes for Astro interesting.

Not look forward to GNB having even more continuation and stuff to squeeze in no mercy while having to move the boss or kitchen sink CDs during it.

I play on PS4, so not for me.

SMN. I like the current iteration a whole lot, and I don't like what it's going to turn into based on what I can tell from looking at the pre-release stuff. I want my DoT management back and to keep the whole diffrent burst into diffrent burst while filling in with Egi Assaults thing.

People really overstated how bad SMN is, it's not bad at all, it's just a bit jank at the start but once it gets going has a quite nice flow to it.



And now they're tossing that all aside because a few peabrains couldn't understand how it works and memed shit to death about "muh aesthetics" and "muh jank", getting a unique job gutted in the process and not having a replacement for those who actually liked the gameplay style. It's Stormblood AST into Shadowbringers AST all over again and I hate it... but at least the SMN rework isn't a complete fucking over of the class lore like the ShB and EW AST """""reworks""""" have been.