The problem with Monk isn't positionals (opinion piece)

[Shurrikhan]

The problem is more of the same as why I stopped playing it in the later part of Shadowbringers

Ahh, my mistake then. I thought you were treating this as a problem new to Endwalker (or, since it's previous gutting).

unless you're just trying to be a contrarian?

I'm just finding the whole "Monk rotates like a tank now" / "can be played with one brain cell" stuff that's been popping up all over threads these last few days unhelpfully hyperbolic.

Sorry for reading that vibe into your words when you instead had a far more specific meaning in mind. It was wrong of me.

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To clarify/recenter: Yes, we've had similar thoughts on Monk. I just do nonetheless think this version is slightly better than what we had in early Shadowbringers (though, I was not a fan of the Anatman opener, so that skews things a bit) and certainly better than late Shadowbringers. As such, it has solid B- tier gameplay to me, but I'd also put even NIN, probably the second best of the melee at the moment, imo, at barely a B. (SAM I'd put at an A or A-). My frustration with Monk is how easily it could be better and seems, just from the kit, to want just that little, fruitful bit more.