Quote Originally Posted by Ricdeau View Post
So it is on a shorter GCD like I thought it might be. That's somewhat good news compared to full GCD that is. They don't want Forbidden Chakra spamming because that would be really strong. So Chakra will likely be a filler ability to extend combos to 4 actions. So if you aren't refreshing something like TOD you'd hit Meditate to get a stack. That way you're still rebuilding stacks. Definitely need to get hands on with it to see what the best usage is going to be.
Will have to see about that... that's 7.5 seconds of no attacking if you use it 5 times during your normal rotation. Using a couple of times during rotation maybe, but all 5 stacks sounds like it would be a DPS loss in total. 320 potency is high for MNK, but not extremely high by any means... Especially in 3.0 when many jobs are getting increased damage.

This is even more of a problem when you consider that Purification would use those 5 stacks without giving any damage at all, which seems more likely now with what we know of Forbidden Chakra tooltip