Fist of Winds

Monks ability fist of wind is severely bugged.

First it does not grant movement speed what so ever, if it does it is negligible.

Second, when enabled and when you hover above the icon it states that it lowers weapon skills recast times, which is false.

When enabled without grease lightning, the global cool down is still 2.47

When added with one stack of grease lightning it is still 2.35

When added with two stacks of grease lightning it is still 2.22

At the moment I am lead the believe fist of winds is currently bugged, or its description is out of date.

The movement speed is increased, you can test this by racing someone from point to point while they run normally and you use fists of wind. However you're only able to tell over a longer distance. I do wish it was a bit faster though.

And yes, from my experience unlike what the tool tip suggests, fists of wind doesn't seem to lower the GCD. If they fix this however, who knows maybe I'll be in fists of wind instead of fire for DPS.

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Originally Posted by Zigkid3

The movement speed is increased, you can test this by racing someone from point to point while they run normally and you use fists of wind. However you're only able to tell over a longer distance. I do wish it was a bit faster though.

And yes, from my experience unlike what the tool tip suggests, fists of wind doesn't seem to lower the GCD. If they fix this however, who knows maybe I'll be in fists of wind instead of fire for DPS.

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Sad...I can't really comment on the movement speed, but you may be right I assume it is a tiny increase 2-3%? I was expecting something like archers ballad song.

It's only movespeed, and it's small. The tooltips are incorrect, the ability is WAI.

The tooltips for all the fist buffs are from before ARR, and therefore outdated. This is the case with the tooltips of many buffs/debuffs. The descriptions in the ability tooltip, however, are correct.

This means:

Fists of Earth only reduces damage by 10%
Fists of Wind only increases movement speed by 20%
Fists of Fire only increases damage by 5%

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Originally Posted by Lygas

The tooltips for all the fist buffs are from before ARR, and therefore outdated. This is the case with the tooltips of many buffs/debuffs. The descriptions in the ability tooltip, however, are correct.

This means:

Fists of Earth only reduces damage by 10%
Fists of Wind only increases movement speed by 20%
Fists of Fire only increases damage by 5%

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20%, Seriously? It doesn't seem like nearly that much.

It helped me a lot on Titan to avoid AoE, i can say for sure it's working fine.
It does not enhance skill speed.

The increase in movement speed can be really helpful. It helps a monk connect strikes against moving targets since it keeps you in range whilst the animation is running. Other melee classes will need much better timing with their movement in order to maintain proper distance to connect their attacks in the same situation.

I do agree that FoW helps a little when dodging AoE as well. A good monk should cycle fists as the nature of the encounter changes. Unlike the bard song, FoW can be maintained in combat.

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Originally Posted by Xell

20%, Seriously? It doesn't seem like nearly that much.

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I don't think it's 20% too. Must be something like 5 or 10%