MONK is to confusing / annoying of a class now

[Shurrikhan]

I dunno about that, RPR feels like it's got a lot more to keep track of than MNK, once you hit 90 at least. I've got 3 melees at 90 so far and in terms of depth I'd rate them something like NIN > RPR >>> MNK. Haven't leveled SAM or DRG yet.

Having three gauges that don't ultimately impact your play is still little to no impact on your play. Most of Reaper's complexity goes only as deep as the outermost layer of one's skin.

Syncing Blitz and coordinating it to fight length has far more going on than does Reaper's mechanics... quite possibly all of them combined.

[meowmaou]

Having three gauges that don't ultimately impact your play is still little to no impact on your play. Most of Reaper's complexity goes only as deep as the outermost layer of one's skin.

Syncing Blitz and coordinating it to fight length has far more going on than does Reaper's mechanics... quite possibly all of them combined.

I feel like I'm rationing gauges and keeping track of cooldowns and planning shit way more on RPR than I do on MNK. Maybe it's just because I'm new to RPR, I couldn't say. I really don't think Blitz is offering anything more than RPR's gauges do. MNK is shallow as hell at the moment. That's not to say RPR is deep, I don't think any job in this game is at the moment.

Regardless at this point I'm more likely to just pick my jobs purely off aesthetic and stick with them no matter what, because nothing seems to be sacred when it comes to SE balancing/rework/gameplay changes.

[Kolsykol]

The easiest melee is reaper and it's not even remotely close.

I enjoy new monk so far (level 87 but it's not like they get anything actually new to integrate after that), but not enough to get me to main it. I hated the job prior to this, but the loss of positionals has helped me out quite a bit in actually enjoying the job. Blitz is a half-baked mechanic but the payoff skills are really cool and satisfying so it's good in my book. Cooldown alignment is weird though, and I really have to fight the urge to double-weave. Also have no idea why they kept 6-sided star around.

That's true I think I am a bit biased since I am more experienced with MNK but I'd say that Reaper is significantly more forgiving which adds to the ease of the Job.

[Lihtleita]

why is the op still a pugilist this worries me

[Dewslam]

why is the op still a pugilist this worries me

Because the forums are weird. Mine still says pugilist too I think.

[Averax]

Because the forums are weird. Mine still says pugilist too I think.

You gotta go in and change your class/job in your forum account settings.

Like i can go back and change mine to conjuror, or arcanist, or whatever.

[Morzy]

why is the op still a pugilist this worries me

Because it's a small detail on the forum that has zero bearing on your gameplay in FFXIV

[elizeugba]

why is the op still a pugilist this worries me

He probably doesn't want to post as their main character.

To OP: I started playing MNK at the last patch of ShB and now am leveling as monk too and I'm loving the changes. Even though I can't tell how it is going to be at the endgame, complaining that a job is bad because you have to re-learn it after major changes is a weak argument.

[Cjh625]

I kinda feel same way tbh, removal of positional made it easier to do normal rotation, but aligning CD has been quite confusing since burst sequence don't repeat in 1 min intervals anymore from what I've seen in the Balance.

[Yokubo]

I'm reluctantly leveling monk out of obligation to the class. I really wish I had put the time into leveling dragoon or ninja which are looking way better but I had to atleast try Monk. I've already gotten 90 reaper which is a million times better.

Class is super simple, but very fluid. If blitz was ogcd I think it wouldn't be as painful, but having been a monk main for the past 8 years and to play in it's current state is just painful.