The Monk Temple Reborn

[Craiger]

The damage on these new abilities are really high, I just wonder how the Forbidden Chakra ability (5 stacks attack), and the TP regen ability, is gonna be fit into your rotation...

Forbidden Chakra a 400 potency attack, so plenty of damage, but you need 5 chakra stacks, and the ability that gives you a stack, is on the GCD... So, using that 5 times while you can hit the enemy, is a big DPS loss. You wanna use it when you can't attack the enemy, or maybe sacrifice 1 attack for it or something, but that's highly situational.

I'm guessing this is gonna balance things out some, because MNKs don't need to get any crazy damage boosts when you have lots of up-time on the boss, but rather when you have lots of down time, during which you can gather those chakra stacks(note that the stance change ability also is on the GCD though)

My problem is the TP regen ability though... If you have tons of up-time on the boss, and need TP, how is that ability gonna help you? You don't want to waste 5 damage attacks on getting up your chakra, and also, it's just 200 TP... How is that worth 5 chakra stacks?! In fights with long transition times or something, you don't really need that TP as much... So I don't really understand it, but will have to see.

[Ricdeau]

My problem is the TP regen ability though... If you have tons of up-time on the boss, and need TP, how is that ability gonna help you? You don't want to waste 5 damage attacks on getting up your chakra, and also, it's just 200 TP... How is that work 5 chakra stacks?!

I think the TP ability is going to be one of those situational things. Like Invigorate on cooldown, no Goad available, and no one else is in need of TP. Also could be useful to use during an add phase that doesn't lead straight into a phase with uptime on the boss. Up until now a lot of adds don't really last all that long, but you might do some AoE that you normally wouldn't so the TP ability can compensate.

Certainly doesn't sound like something that you'd be using all that much, but a nice addition to have when you need it.

[WingedSwine]

Do we know if Move Form requires you to actually be in a form to use? I know using it to go into Opo-opo doesn't give GL, but does this ability mean we can open up with Snap > DK > Twin for when PB is on cooldown?

My problem is the TP regen ability though... If you have tons of up-time on the boss, and need TP, how is that ability gonna help you? You don't want to waste 5 damage attacks on getting up your chakra, and also, it's just 200 TP...

I feel like the TP regen is going to act more like a buffer until invigorate comes back up while TP starved rather than something to pop whenever it's up, maybe. If you're running on empty your GCDs will be delayed slightly anyway, so I'm assuming you'd be better off stacking chakra between every other attack.

[Ricdeau]

Do we know if Move Form requires you to actually be in a form to use? I know using it to go into Opo-opo doesn't give GL, but does this ability mean we can open up with Snap > DK > Twin for when PB is on cooldown?

Yes, that is exactly what you'll be able to do.