The snobbery actually came from the huge lack of invites on MNKs pre-Aht uhrgan.Sugami wrote: Like hell they didn't! Years of elite snobbery and trolling through other people's forums just to slap their epeens in their face has come 180 and bit them on the ass.
Most exp party never wanted mnks and Manaburn was also on the rise.
Those manaburn parties came when a lot of people jumped on the BLM bandwagon to get into an HNM/Endgame LS so there were more blms then parties needing them.
Manaburn proved that there could be good exp made without having a main tank in a party as long as you could keep taking damage to a minimum.
People also discovered that bones in KRT took extra damage from blunt/h2h damage and they invented the mnk burns in King ranperre's tomb to counter their extreme lack of invites.
People seeing how much and how fast exp could be made from that they all jumped on the MNK bandwagon.
Other people saw what kind of exp could be made of that and started to experiment themselves with similar burn parties with monks going krt only and blms going manaburn only.
And don't get me started about Ammoburns with rangers and sam/rng.
At one point these were the most powerful jobs in game.
(Sam still is imho.)
Only a short while later the dual wield burns started and the traditional Renkei -> Magic Burst parties became obsolete.
A whole lot of jobs got excluded because of this.
And with the TP burn hype MNK (also WAR, SAM, Dual Wield DRKs, and NIN) became very popular jobs in exp.
This is where we are now.
Now the 2 handed weapons are getting a workout (Long overdue I must add.)
SE however made the mistake of boosting 2 handed jobs a whee bit too much changing the game mechanics a bit too drasticly.
We've had a lot of different types of party systems in this game, we've all called a lot of jobs snobby and overpowered at some point.
SE has always tried to change those things to balance it out with other melee jobs by either boosting some abilities or nerving other.
They are going to fix this hopefully on a positive situation for all jobs.
But that's a tough job to do!
Who knew slackers could work so hard? D:
