Part 1.

I read through the thread and have been checking up on it whenever there's a new reply. Below are some thoughts that I've been adding to incrementally while at work. Sorry if this is a bit disorganized.

What would you all like to see in terms of *new* skills?
- The stances, as they are now, are one and done for the most part. Once you build up your GL stacks, you can stay in wind and forget about it. To that effect, what do you all think about getting rid of the *stances* entirely? Vestiges of the stances can remain in the form of Riddles - Earth, Fire, and a new one for Wind (maybe a reskin of Internal Release?)
- I think other ways to spend our chakra would be great. Currently, we only have The Forbidden Chakra and Enlightenment. Might’ve been mentioned in this thread, but I think if we could consume chakras to generate GL stacks, that would re-introduce the viability of TK (similar flavor to SAM’s Hagakure and NIN’s Meisui).
- On the topic of chakras, I think, if we removed the stances, we could replace those “skills” with one that tie in the light/dark chakras mentioned in the job quest.
- This is just a stab in the dark, but consider something like this: reduce the number of chakras stored to 4; GL 4 is now a trait. Introduce a skill that consumes 4 chakras for GL 4 (could convert a lesser amount too, e.g. 2 chakras for 2 GL stacks). Tie a Light/Dark chakra generation depending on whether you used True Strike, Demolish or Rock Breaker; True Strike would grant a Light Chakra. Demolish and Rock Breaker would grant a Dark Chakra. To borrow a little from RDM (of which I only have superficial knowledge), if we have more Light chakras stored, then at 3L, 1D, we can consume them all for a buff (as to what that buff does, idk). On the opposite end, if we have 3D / 1L, maybe just make the chakra consumption an ogcd skill with moderate potency? (That way in AOE rotations, you’ll have that ogcd to prevent over-capping; candidate for bringing back Howling Fist?) And if we have 2D/2L, then we can use TFC / Enlightenment

What would you like to stay?
- I think most monks would agree that greased lightning and the progression of forms (Opo-opo > Coeurl > Raptor) should stay
- With MCH being the only class I play that I know got a rework, I don’t know if there were any changes made to the story of its job quests. To that end, I think it’d be best for all parties (players and devs) if we kept chakra; reason being, the time spent trying to design/implement another resource could be better spent in other aspects of the job imo.