Default How the players destroyed the monk.
I've been browsing the forums for a while now, keeping an inventory of the monk grievances and complaints. I've just been sitting back smirking. See, through the past several weeks, I've gone completely unaffected by the monk-nerf patches, save perhaps the -%crit from fist weapons.

I am a harmonious monk. That's all I ever wanted to be since the beginning of vanguard. When I discovered what I was capable of doing with the complexities of stance switching, I was enthralled to discover that I could play the game my own way with a little implemented ingenuity.

But now I have but one option left--to complain like the rest of you. In response to the most recent patch (2/28), I am disappointed in every monk who has ever reported or even considered reporting the Jin dynamics of the harmonious stance. By reporting said dynamics as a BUG, you have now ruined the design of the harmonious monk. Not only did Sigil adjust the Jin dynamic of the harmonious body stance, but they also added a global cooldown to stance switching. And YOU, the player, are responsible. You in your beaurocratic reports of abnormal behavior and your lack of understanding have led to further disruption.

I am left frustrated, wanting to scream and curse at every one of you simplistic idiots for reporting monk enhancements as bugs, just because you've decided that Dragon Stance should be the best, or that Drunken stance is the coolest sounding.

The player base's lack of thinking about the fundamentals of class balance and its interaction with player satisfaction has utterly smothered any inspiration to be creative with my class. Harmony is now shattered.

This post was just for you.

The saddest thing is, utilizing the design of stance switching and harmonious body, I was barely able to match the damage of a same level ranger. Go figure.  It made the game fun...you know, being able to compete.

The ability to generate Jin was way to obviously a bug - pretty much as if dragon monk could have complete healed themselves by swapping back and forth from their regenerative form (if it would have worked, at least!) in a few seconds. Harmonious stances are still probably the most powerful, and the fix was a needed one - not a nerf by any means.

If this 'technique' was working as intended, why did Sigil change things when what was happening was brought to their attention?