Howling Fist is pretty cool. Make it a Blitz skill?

I was synced down to be able to see this skill for the first time today, and I love it! Feels good to use, super hero entrance type animation, great sound effect, and does AoE damage. It's a really feel-good skill. I was thinking updating the explosive visuals a little bit and perhaps swap out Flint Strike with HF instead?

Howling Fist was an old oGCD skills MNK used to have but was removed when Enlightenment was introduced in Stormblood, which was terrible because Howling Fist had a higher potency than Enlightenment (think it was 220 vs 210 IIRC) and Howling Fist wasn't locked behind a resource like Enlightenment was so it was a definite downgrade overall back than in every regard, from damage to animation to being more limited to use due to Chakra system.

Making it into a Blitz skill is unlikely however.

Interesting. Though I agree that it is very unlikely to made into a Blitz skill, I think it has a better chance than returning to an oGCD based on the direction the devs have gone.

I also just realized that Flint Strike upgrades to Rising Phoenix, and I was looking to have HF as part of the full lv90 kit. Replacing Elixer Field is another possibility, but I think a lot of players like having that skill.

Elixir Field should be swapped out with Flint Strike imo.
It's really dumb that one of our new skills is only for synced content...
And instead we get an old ogcd turned into a gcd it's beyond stupid imo.

Just make one of the attacks that upgrades via trait reintroduced as an oGCD (Steel Peak, Howling Fist, Flint Strike, etc) nothing would be lost, really. Unless there's someone that really cares about the visual progression of the job.

There's a lot of unused attacks that can be recycled as oGCDs.

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Originally Posted by Kolsykol

Elixir Field should be swapped out with Flint Strike imo.
It's really dumb that one of our new skills is only for synced content...
And instead we get an old ogcd turned into a gcd it's beyond stupid imo.

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Frankly, I think SE should take another look at how they approach level sync. With 90 levels now, the toolkit of a given job can vary wildly based on which level of content you’ve been dropped into during roulettes. It’s difficult to keep up practice with your max-level rotation because of this.

Even if they had to vastly reduce potencies for balance reasons, it’d be nice if we could still use our full kit in synced content. Not sure if SWTOR does this for its instanced content but they definitely do it in the rest of the game, and players there will often return to areas they’ve long since outleveled for the purposes of daily quests, not unlike XIV’s roulettes.

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Originally Posted by Theodric_Thorne

Frankly, I think SE should take another look at how they approach level sync. With 90 levels now, the toolkit of a given job can vary wildly based on which level of content you’ve been dropped into during roulettes. It’s difficult to keep up practice with your max-level rotation because of this.

Even if they had to vastly reduce potencies for balance reasons, it’d be nice if we could still use our full kit in synced content. Not sure if SWTOR does this for its instanced content but they definitely do it in the rest of the game, and players there will often return to areas they’ve long since outleveled for the purposes of daily quests, not unlike XIV’s roulettes.

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With how many skills that they've cut over the years, they could easily reintroduce the majority of them as low level version of existing skills, just like they did with Howling Fist and Steel Peak and accomplish just that.