Quote Originally Posted by Connor View Post
Even as someone who has yet to touch Viper I find it strange to make such big changes to how it plays to early on.

I mean, I don’t remember seeing scores of threads talking about how it needed less positionals, nor the APM. So like, where did the complaints even come from lol? Even my Obviously-Super-Accurate-and-Reliable Google Translate on JP forum threads didn’t find any many major complaints about it.

Meanwhile certain other jobs do have many, many threads about them that are going mostly unaddressed (*cough* healers *cough*) lol
While I pointed the finger at Yoshi-"I'm a white-belt at MNK"-P, my husband says Mr. Happy is partly to blame for this. Apparently he made videos complaining that the job felt like it was "always on" and needed more down-time which he alleged might feel off-putting to some. It's not like MNK mains haven't totally been complaining for three expansions now about things that slow the job down and give us big windows where we have nothing to do because we don't have skills to push... :/

Happy is one of the content creators who gets to have face time with Yoshi-P at fan fests and has been directly asked what he would like to see, which he has admitted to on record, and some of these things have indeed been implemented into the game. He has directly advocated for changes that have aversely affected MNK, has been a proponent of removing skill speed as a stat from the game, and made suspiciously magnanimous statements regarding certain MNK skills in SHB that pretty much killed the fun speed builds and made them impossible to use.

This guy doesn't like going fast, and advocates for dumbing things down and removing any "race against the timer" kind of mechanics jobs had, but acts magnanimous about it. Then he tries to play politician to appease both the raiding crowd and the access SE gives him by making nice to the 220ms RPer in Limsa who is easily overwhelmed by having to learn how things work, by talking out of both sides of his mouth. He has held the simultaneous positions that VPR should be given more downtime, AND that not all jobs should cater to everyone, in order to keep his subscriber count up. It's pretty slimy and jobs have suffered by the dev team treating him like a representative for our community (which he isn't).

Drak Gamestein is another guy who is more directly responsible for the state of EW and DT MNK, and is another person who has been in the same position as Happy, with similar access. People who don't know any better don't second-guess the things they say, because they're established. We need better content creators who aren't going to use their access so irresponsibly. My husband says he doesn't agree with everything Xenosis Vex has to say but appreciates that he seems more genuine and doesn't pull his punches when he has issues with something to appease people.