Quote Originally Posted by Xiu_Ye View Post
All i get from this is that the change monk needed was to be less punishing/easier. Saying a class doesnt deserve to do damage just feels like jealousy to me. Balance shouldnt be based on the difficulty of the job imo. If you want to play a harder job play it, but all jobs should be balanced at high end. (You can balance the average player by adjusting how punishing aspects of the class are to raise the floor of skill while not affecting the ceiling.) Also to be quite honest if you simply get full uptime on any class you will beat like 80% of the playerbase for this game because it is so incredibly casual friendly. (Not necessarily a bad thing) The issue I have is that at high end monk is just devastating now. And I expect it to get worse as people push monk optimization while reaper will probably have very little left to gain. I would like to have seen monk changed in making positionals less punishing or something to that tune than a potency buff. Also needed heavier drg/nin buffs and a more moderate sam buff.
I just fundamentally disagree.
I think easier jobs should have a relatively stable dps and be a '' safe '' option.
Harder jobs should have both a higher skill ceiling and higher dps ceiling.

It sounds pretty logical to me.
I mean I could just as easily turn it around on you and say that what you're saying just sounds like you think people should be rewarded for less effort and not have to try.
In the end of the day I am talking about the Jobs potential not what the average player does or whatever.
If you want to have an easier option then I think that's fine and I don't even think it's a problem if they have high dps.
But I think that harder jobs should have the capacity to push higher at the cost of ease, I think that just makes for more interesting Job design too.

And I think most people would agree that it doesn't feel good to put more effort into something and get less or even the same out of it as someone who puts in less.
In the end of the day we're kinda all just monke lel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KSryJXDpZo .
But there's some logic in it I think and it's an understandable frustration and feeling.