Quote Originally Posted by Valence View Post
I'm probably going to make monk enemies out of saying this, and I do agree that not everything was cool, but I think it could be safely argued that it didn't face riots as much as summoner, and for a reason.
when you're the least overall played job for two whole expansions, it's kind of hard to start an uproar when no one plays it lol. you're not gonna make enemies of any MNK mains when there are none

if you had to ask from my own perspective as someone that's been deep in Monk discussion ever since Shadowbringers and has mained the job since 2018, the job already faced SMN-level riots all throughout 5.X to the point where it became a joke about how the DPS board was just a Monk main board and was pretty much the only DPS other than Summoner to get +100 page threads complaining about them at the time.

EW MNK, regardless of my personal feelings, is simply not as bad as its ShB iterations. anyone that felt burnout or ennui from how SE handles the job would have already moved on or accepted by now that they do not care about it. after all, prior to Endwalker, MNK's biggest claim to fame was about how hilariously mishandled it has been.

after +2 years, I'm not convinced that Blitz isn't a fluke, and any and all nuance the mechanic happens to have has a very good chance of being obliterated come 7.0 considering the amount of people I see crying because they can't use Phantom Rush in their opener.