Monk suggestions

[Shurrikhan]

Or to simplify, like a manual transmission on a car for you to rev up or down. Though keeping TK as an all-burner with its current potency still feels niche, but the rev up/down is indeed an idea I can see on MNK.

TK would likely need some sort of carry-over. For instance, if downtime meditation were removable (as most people do not seem to enjoy spamming their key as soon as downtime begins, hoping like hell they'd only recently been able to cap and spend Chakra as not to waste the downtime potential, and since the devs seem unwilling to empower manual Meditation to any point of during-uptime situational viability for modular control), it could source Chakra in a way that cannot be overcapped, allowing then for uses of abilities that may accelerate its way back up to a typical GL level or provide enough relative potency to help maintain a burst phase.

Alternatively, TK could, in addition to its damage, cause the next x strikes to consume GL as its penalty rather than removing the stacks outright, such that it (1) lingers briefly, aiding the return ramp-up, and (2) has no additional penalty during downtime.

Or any combination of whatever to make it feel smooth, viable, and intuitive for the purpose it's meant to fill.

I like the idea, but I feel like getting too much Greased Lightning would make the job less engaging and more difficult. It would be hard to weave in a Steel Peak, for example, if GL IV made skill speed so high as to make weaving skills a DPS loss.

Ideally, Monk would need the same QoL improvement that DRKs, NINs, MCHs, BRDs, and DRGs have also always needed: for their animation times to scale with their current GCDs.