Quote Originally Posted by Xiaoki View Post
Yeah, Monk is so completely not fun that people are actually playing it.

Look at the FFLogs for the Endwalker Extreme raids and you see a lot of Monks.

In Shadowbringers you never saw Monks in progression raids because no one wanted them.

So, looks like the Monk changes worked.

You shouldn´t claim stuff just because... let´s face it:

- Monk has been played in Shadowbringers
- Monk and Blackmage had the lowest playercount via ff.logs in Shadowbringers

Now:

- Monk is played in Endwalker
- Monk and Ninja has the lowest playercount via ff.logs in Endwalker

So what changed?

- Ninja is less popular probably caused by the release of Reaper
- Monk didn´t changed in its popularity even if it has got a complete rework, meanwhile Summoner, who got a rework too, is one of the most popular classes right now. (Obviously because it´s easy and has bling bling.)

In the end...

The changes DID NOT work. The most ppl out there running and logging trials with Monk are old Monk mains for sure. They test it out, some of them (myself included) even hope that we get our positionals back within the next patch, so all this new practice incl. positional-play makes sense. But the overall popularity and playrate didn´t grow and if Monk stays in its current state, it´ll sink drastically in the future.