Don't think the monk buffs are going to work out all that well.

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Originally Posted by Mitski

TP interaction with skill speed will cause balancing issues down the road because our only method of "TP management" is using less skills. If players are encountering minor TP bottlenecks now, what is going to happen with ilvl95 gear? ilvl100 gear? ilvl110? Imagine "managing" TP at 600 or 700 skill speed with no scaling... it would be a severe restriction, it wouldn't be fun, and it would be extremely difficult to balance vs an infinite resource class. [...]

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This is assuming that there's no hard speed ceiling and that SS will always increase with higher iL gear. Naturally, if your scenario comes true, I too would prefer solution 3 if you would only consider Monk in a vacuum. It is possible that it is intended for us to suffer slight TP issues in order for a group of players to be forced to choose between a rock and a hard place:

Bards sing so monks can keep on trucking, but that might be DPS-ineffective if the monk is bad at her job. If the monk is a beast, the tank might lose aggro if he's not on point. It's a balancing act that would force players to not just push DPS to the limit but consider other parameters. Granted, it will feel a bit rough that you can't push maximum DPS all the time as bard but I argue that it's just as bad if you can just go full tilt all the time and rely on the system to hold no matter what.

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Originally Posted by Ephier

I would gladly take a TP combo.

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A TP combo would really make things interesting. It could make ID useful.

1) Monk buffs should not be changed. The last thing we need is them dumbing down one of the biggest aspects of monks: maintaining their buffs. If they make all the jobs as brain-dead as bards, I'm quitting the game.

2) I was not able to test the melee portion due to lack of a good enough parser but skill speed is amazing for monks, for various reasons. For those who don't know how it works, every second of reduction is worth more the lower you GCD gets. This means -.1 sec is worth more at 2.0 sec GCD than 2.5 sec. To counter this, speed works on a percentage system, so it takes more to get -.1 sec the lower your GCD is.

3) TP issues in coil depends on your group's dps. You should never have issues outside of coil; you might not even need Invigorate unless your group's dps is horrid. The only exception is heavy aoe situations but even that depends on your group's dps. Also, TP issue applies equally to all TP-dps; monks have a lower GCD but their abilities also cost less.

buff bards to save the day with army peon

1. Every job is already as "brain dead" as bards. Except instead of pressing 3 buttons to maintain buffs, you press 6 in a set sequence. So really you only have 2 buttons. Who's the easier class now? =) Please don't make monks sound like some ridiculously difficult class. And don't put down other classes because of their perceived easiness. That has no bearing on...dps or anything. You aren't the great gamer you think you are.

2. Skill speed is stuck somewhere between decent for burst and minimal effect for long term dps, again depending on fight length. On extremely long fights it does nothing. Any fight where you cannot stick to a boss for more than 1 minute at at a time or so, it also does nothing. Every other stat is much, much better.

3. This is true.

I wanted to also speak on OP's point.

If they buff GL. Just...wait a second before doing your rotation =) It has zero effect on your TP drain. You yourself are the only person that can affect your TP drain.

If you feel you're draining too fast, pare down your rotation to the basic 3, and wait.

Yes! It does suck, but it is a design decision that SE has made, that mana/TP for dps is a thing, and it is beyond crippling for combat and super painful to deal with.

Hopefully they change it soon, and give actual meaningful resource management to classes other than BLM.