Samurai changes are unacceptable in the current iteration

[Runeslayer]

Id honestly recommend RDM for people that really enjoy the meter balancing aspect, the big burst phase, and the general flow I think SAM is now down.
Funny enough, RDM is one of the few jobs in this expac where I think the dev team actually hit in both pve and pvp and I don't think they're due for changes. It's kinda sad when you think about it, that you can pick maybe a handful of jobs that were actually overall improved and remain in a good spot.

[Akava]

How long has it been now? I don't know, don't care to look it up. Here's a fun fact. My White Mage is getting bigger direct hit crits than my samurai is. Now that's a job that knows how to hype up a Critical hit!

[CelestiCer]

How long has it been now? I don't know, don't care to look it up. Here's a fun fact. My White Mage is getting bigger direct hit crits than my samurai is. Now that's a job that knows how to hype up a Critical hit!

April 11th 2022, 6.1 changes hit live servers. Kaiten was removed, potencies adjusted and Guaranteed Crits implemented. It's been a very long time without addressing or acknowledging this part of the game.

[xAFROx]

How long has it been now? I don't know, don't care to look it up. Here's a fun fact. My White Mage is getting bigger direct hit crits than my samurai is. Now that's a job that knows how to hype up a Critical hit!

Over a full 4 weeks now, to answer your question, assuming it's about 6.1

Been sticking to my secondary main job since trying the changes. Would like to play dps again, maybe some time before I end up leveling another melee.

[Soge01]

When is 6.2? One more month??? Hopefully we'll hear something by then.

[CelestiCer]

When is 6.2? One more month??? Hopefully we'll hear something by then.

Ya I am fairly confident it gets acknowledged and addressed... at least about around before the new Physical Ranged job " Blitz-baller " makes its appearance definitely :/

[Ruminous]

Ya I am fairly confident it gets acknowledged and addressed... at least about around before the new Physical Ranged job " Blitz-baller " makes its appearance definitely :/

What, you don't want to blitz? Blitzing is great.

But seriously yeah, I doubt they'll really address anything in 6.2, even then that's like end of the summer probably or mid summer. Samurai's "fine", obviously. Its dps numbers are good despite the low representation it has now because most people swapped off to the other melee roles. Ninja saw a massive boost in representation!

[AsiTsurugi]

What, you don't want to blitz? Blitzing is great.

But seriously yeah, I doubt they'll really address anything in 6.2, even then that's like end of the summer probably or mid summer. Samurai's "fine", obviously. Its dps numbers are good despite the low representation it has now because most people swapped off to the other melee roles. Ninja saw a massive boost in representation!

SAM is not a problem anymore because no one plays it! Truly an idea only the greatest mind in SE's dev team can conjure up.

[Kolsykol]

MNK is rly bizarre when you get into actually playing it optimally, basically always has been.
To me it just feels outdated with the animations and I am just rly tired of the same combos I rly didn't feel like the Blitz skills made up for that.
Especially when Elixir Field was made a Blitz gcd when it's just an old ogcd o_o................

If you play at 60 FPS you also need different gear because of how gcd works ( can look it up on The Balance Discord server ) and the damage can also be really inconsistent and imo it's more noticeable on MNK.
Poor RNG on MNK is kinda depressing and demoralizing.

Overall I think MNK is great atm even if I hate the removal of positionals and think it's dumbed down, but to me it also feels outdated on a visual level and repetitive.
All Jobs are repetitive on some level I just feel it way more on MNK.
I am not a big fan of the short buff/ dot durations either my dream rework of MNK would focus more on flashy animations and ditch the dot and do something more interesting with Twin Snakes ( also wtf with that new icon, it's just harder to see.. ).
Make it more of a combo master and build on the Beast Chakra.
Demolish as a dot just feels very strange imo it always did.

[Alex1337]

Monk is quite good. I absolutely adore the aoe, however, the perfect balance system to me seems tacked on I don’t know. Its not so bad to pick up but I do agree that the buff and dot duration make me look at buffs & boss debuffs more than I’d like.

Aoe tho 10/10 so fun.