Is Tornado Kick rotation still viable? Or do I need to find a new monk style?

[GuntherGrass]

I actually found a way to use Six Sided Star in the Tornado Kick rotation, but only whenever Anatman is up. At the end of your looping rotation you use Six Sided Star to renew your gauge instead of throwing a Demolish (or Snap Punch) to renew it. Then you quickly follow SSS with Tornado Kick and then Anatman. By the time your weaponskills come back online you'll have a stack from Anatman and you complete your rotation with the Demolish (or Snap Punch) and you're back at 2. SSS takes the guilt out of awkward Anatman wait times and vice versa.

But if you're talking about that standard rotation, I assume it's a situational thing and probably comes up pretty often in order to save GL during mechanics.

[BucklesTrespen]

I actually found a way to use Six Sided Star in the Tornado Kick rotation, but only whenever Anatman is up. At the end of your looping rotation you use Six Sided Star to renew your gauge instead of throwing a Demolish (or Snap Punch) to renew it. Then you quickly follow SSS with Tornado Kick and then Anatman. By the time your weaponskills come back online you'll have a stack from Anatman and you complete your rotation with the Demolish (or Snap Punch) and you're back at 2. SSS takes the guilt out of awkward Anatman wait times and vice versa.

But if you're talking about that standard rotation, I assume it's a situational thing and probably comes up pretty often in order to save GL during mechanics.

Sounds like a lot to manage / align - not to mention risking Anatman not being available for a boss transition - just to shoehorn TK into the rotation versus, say, BLM Xenoglossy which is straight up available every 30 seconds for next to no management.

[SpeckledBurd]

I actually found a way to use Six Sided Star in the Tornado Kick rotation, but only whenever Anatman is up. At the end of your looping rotation you use Six Sided Star to renew your gauge instead of throwing a Demolish (or Snap Punch) to renew it. Then you quickly follow SSS with Tornado Kick and then Anatman. By the time your weaponskills come back online you'll have a stack from Anatman and you complete your rotation with the Demolish (or Snap Punch) and you're back at 2. SSS takes the guilt out of awkward Anatman wait times and vice versa.

But if you're talking about that standard rotation, I assume it's a situational thing and probably comes up pretty often in order to save GL during mechanics.

Unfortunately, doing this is a huge damage loss. The amount of time it takes to rebuild up to 4 stacks of Greased Lightning with Anatman is about 9-12 seconds where you're launching no GCDs or Autoattacks. The gain you get from throwing out a Six Sided Star and a Tornado Kick still doesn't make up for the loss in uptime that it represents. The only time you can actually do this is when the boss is about to jump and won't be back for 12 seconds, or when they stand around monologuing at you before going into their ultimate after you've beaten up their adds(basically the ends of the add phases in Titania EX and innocence.)