Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
I think you might want to give more specific examples of what you want instead of just a list of what you didn't like.
The developers have had a habit of keeping useless skills, doubling up on skills you only need one of, and eliminating skills we actually do use. This happened both this current expansion as well as the last one.

For example, Touch of Death was removed last expansion, but One Ilm Punch was retained.

Monk has too many skills that are only there to either burn off all your Greased Lightning stacks or to just maintain them. In reality monk really only needs one to maintain stacks and one to spend them, and the rest of the skills should be either reworked or cut out entirely. My personal take, leave Tornado Kick as-is, and then make Perfect Balance just give you max GL stacks. Then cut out Anatman, Six-Sided Star, and Riddle of Earth in their current forms, and maybe make them into something different.

Some examples could be Anatman is a downtime skill that gives you a stacking damage up boost so that when a boss returns, from a jump phase, you do additional damage for a short period of time. Bring back Steel Peak and then have Six Sided Star simply replace it at higher levels as a higher damage version of the same skill with a new animation. Riddle of Earth could maybe then be a party utility skill that provides a small defense up boost to the party, and maybe lock it behind being in fists of earth?

Additionally I do think the removal of Inner Release was a bad idea with the current iteration of the job. With it being layers upon layers of RNG to unlock your DPS potential, Inner Release was one skill that helped tilt those odds in your favor. I do think that the RNG aspect of monk should be more like bard where if you get a critical hit, you get a chakra stack. It may require a nerf to the potency if Forbidden Chakra, but if you're able to use the skill more often, and you're guaranteed that if nothing else, after five bootshines you get a forbidden chakra, the job will feel better to play.