Quote Originally Posted by Powercow View Post
I have a very bad feeling about this. If turning Greased Lightning into a trait is the difficult part of the rework, I wouldn't get my hopes up seeing anything except some potency tweaks and, if we're lucky, a minor change to an ability or two.

Turning Greased Lightning into a trait seems... well it kinda smacks of them removing another mechanic from monk. It's not an especially engaging mechanic, but I have some serious reservations that Monk is going to get anything else to compensate for a mechanic being removed. They never have before, why start now?

I'd love to be proven wrong here but... yeah...
I am just as weary and sceptical as you are, but a rework like this potentially frees MNK from the shackles it's been tied to since ARR. It might no longer be just the "Greased Lightning" job that everybody has known it for so many years. Though, that's the optimist in me speaking and I am aware I'm being too hopeful with something that the dev team is known to screw up literally every single time.

At the very worst, this change frees Monk in 6.0 for a lot of new ideas, instead of SE constantly making skills that revolve around GL maintenance.