Monk Needs a Complete Rework

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COUGH BUMP THIS TOPIC IS TOO GOOD TO NOT SEE MORE DISCUSSION.

Ahem.

Unfortunately, there's little that can be said at this point that I haven't already said ad nauseum in this thread or in other threads. Monk feedback has been ignored for so long that it feels like providing it is a waste of time to many players.

Something that I don't think has been touched on yet is PB's cooldown. 120 seconds seems a bit excessive when you consider skills like Kassatsu and Meikyo/Ikkishoten. Thoughts?

EDIT: Especially since this is the ONLY other way to ramp up quickly. I think we've already covered why TK's design is bad, so I'll leave that sleeping dog alone.

The unfortunate thing is Perfect Balance's cooldown actually was 60 seconds between 4.2 and 5.0. They nerfed it because people were using it for the Tornado Kick rotation, so rather than adjusting Tornado Kick, an underused skill that people want to use, they decided to make Monk miserable to play in dungeons on launch by utterly shredding our ability to recover stacks and creating more problems instead of solving them.

Salt Aside, Perfect Balance is currently plagued by a problematic design where it's supposed to be our Blood of the Dragon/Enochian skill that grants us our buffs, but the actual way it functions makes it more like Meikyo Shisui in practice. Tornado Kick is obviously at direct odds with the design of it as a buff granting skill, but the new Leaden Fist buff really breaks PB as being used as something other than a pure utility skill. Before DK granting Leaden Fist was a thing, using PB to do GCDs out of order was a small potency gain at best because our weaponskills didn't really fluctuate too much around their average. You could spam True Strikes for a little extra damage but you'd have to refresh your buffs and lose a Crit Bootshine, so as gains went it was small. Leaden Fist Bootshine sits so far out of the normal average of Monk's weaponskills that using Perfect Balance to get more is a huge gain. Given their history with the job, I'd be surprised if this is intentional on the devs part rather than a total accident. The only way to fix it is to change Tornado Kick fundamentally so there's no incentive to burn stacks and to either rework Leaden Bootshine or rework Perfect Balance.

This is just another example of the many reasons Monk is in need of a rework.