MNK and DRG: How are they?

[echo78]

Monk has never really had a problem with viability unless you're talking about ARR or HW MNK.

ARR monk was basically required because of dragon kick and running double monk was common. Monk was completely viable throughout all of HW, it just wasn't optimal.

Anyway, I think EW monk is horrible (gameplay wise) and it really has nothing in common with the old monk gameplay that I loved (monk being a fast paced sustained DPS with an emphasis on positionals, OCGDs and keeping up GL. Also the dots before they got taken away in SB) so oh well I guess. To me, monk got deleted from the game and replaced with something completely different but it happens to have weaponskills that share the same name. How unfortunate.