Monk suggestions

[Mikey_R]

This is going to be a long one, things will be moved around compared to the original post, but that's just to make life easier. If anything isn't mentioned, I either agree, or don't have an opinion either way.

Fists of Wind - scraped
Fists of Earth -scraped
Fists of Fire - reworked to passive trait

If you make one into a trait, why not just have them all as a trait? Granted, a permanent 10% damage reduction will be a bit strong, so make it lower, but I don't see the point in making one of the fists a trait and not doing the same to the rest.

Form Shift - scraped
Inner Focus
Effect: While not in Raptor-Form or Courl-Form, Opo-Opo Form is automatically gained.
Pure Will
Effect: If GL runs out by time it sets automatically back to its full lenght. Has a Cd.

You have taken the flexibility of Form Shift, reduced it and split it. Form Shift's boon is that you can switch to any stance you want in downtime, granted, this is mostly Coeurl, but there are times when you do shift into others, losing that flexibility will hinder you in the long run. Inner Focus seems quite frankly, silly. Opo-opo is the worst form to start in damage wise, you need to get that GL going asap, so delaying it by 2 CGDs hurts you that way. As for Pure Will, traits don't have cooldowns for a start, so it would be a new ability, basically RoE but refresh on use rather than on hit, so why not make it that instead. As for Inner Focus, why not change it so that it removes timers from forms? It prevents you from having to spam form shift before a fight as you can just sit in Coeurl waiting, and if you keep form shift, you still get to keep the flexibility added with that as well. Simple and easy.

One Ilm Punch - reworked to a ogcd attack with Cd, gaining 1 GL
Double Courl Fists
Effect: Changing Shoulder Tackle into Double Courl Fists
Double Courl Fists: Rushes towards an enemy, inflicting dmg to it and all enemys in the way, stunning the Target, gaining 1 GL.

Personally, I'm not a fan of the idea of having oGCDs applying GL, however, if you take these skills and put them into the toolkit you provided as a whole, it then just seems to me like you saw the problem with starting a fight in Opo-opo, as it delays GL aquisition, and tried to fix it by adding these two as a way to remedy it, that's about the only gripe I have.

Riddle of Fire - reworked to increasing attack speed by 15%

I think 15% is a bit too much, however, if you make it a temporary GL4, that would be better in my opinion.


Overall, while this is my thoughts on what you have suggested, I feel it's just trying to add things to monk it doesn't need, just adding things for the sake of adding things. Keep the changes simple, yet effective. The monk doesn't need much to make it fun again, but go too far, and you add complexity where it isn't needed, and that can be just as bad.