Let's Talk Benchmark and Skills~

[JunseiKei]

What you're calling Simian Thrash is just Tornado Kick.

It seems like Monk has an ability that lets us go from no stacks of Greased Lightning to 3 Stacks, which is kind of...so so. We technically already have that in the form of Perfect Balance so I'm gonna hope that it's something else and they just reduce the timer on Perfect Balance.

Ah, you're right. However, what is throwing me off is a complete lack of greased lightning effect. The swirling green animation is hard to miss. Maybe that buff allows the use of GL consuming moves without having GL to begin with?

[SpeckledBurd]

Ah, you're right. However, what is throwing me off is a complete lack of greased lightning effect. The swirling green animation is hard to miss. Maybe that buff allows the use of GL consuming moves without having GL to begin with?

That kinda goes against the spirit of Greased Lightning, its not like Warrior's stacks that are meant to be spent, its meant to be conserved at all costs. The only reason Tornado Kick burns it is because it's designed to mitigate the massive loss of when you'll inevitably lose it to bosses going invulnerable.


Honestly it's kind of hard to tell what the ability does from what we have compared to say, Machinists Flamethrower or Dark Knight's Dark Cover. It's entirely possible that they used Tornado kick in this trailer because it's the flashiest move that monk has and it's fairly cinematic by nature. Going back to the Heavensward Trailer they did a number of things that were done that don't make sense with current rotations (Delirium and Armor Crush being used on nothing). There's some speculation elsewhere that the ability requires getting hit to proc because the Monk used Fists of Earth for example, but that would literally make it Haymaker 2.0 so I'd like to think that a lot of it is style before substance.