MNK and DRG: How are they?

[AlgernonBlackwood]

There are many things about MNK that I do not consider designed well and I don't think it is helpful for anyone to dismiss potential discussion. Yes, the popularity of a job does not represent its quality- but there is merit in understanding why MNK is played so little compared to its DPS brothers and it's not as simple as chalking it up to Monk being punishing (which is not true anymore) or being "hard to play" (a subjective metric). Do not get me wrong though, I do not share Fendred's rather surface level and unhelpful opinion of "no one plays Monk therefore rework it."

For a start, it would be nice if the job was actually playable without third party mods. It's the job I find the most fun, but I've all but given up on raiding with it due to the fact that it forces double weaves on you despite being literally incapable of accommodating them when playing on console.

I've tried everything I can think of to make it work, but you just can't get around the windows where you need to hit both RoF and PB without clipping, drifting RoF, or rearranging your entire rotation to avoid these windows.

edit: actually, I guess delaying your PB until after your Raptor works okay. You still have time to fit everything into RoF. It just feels kind of bad.