Quote Originally Posted by VentVanitas View Post
Just a quick update, now that the LL digest is out, we now know that the Form Shift change is going to make it refresh GL no matter what form, rather than skipping Opo-Opo altogether (ala BLM's Umbral Soul) as the earlier translation would have us believe. Which is good enough for me, as it's what I and a lot of other people have been asking for them to do anyway. So... RIP SSS I guess, made just a tad bit more useless until 5.4 lol.
Could you link the page where this is? If this is going to happen then I wonder how this will work with Perfect Balance as it was also purposed to be fixed in 5.3. The patch notes can't come soon enough for us Monk mains. Your correct that SSS would be taken off the hot bar if this is true. Then that would be two capstone abilities rendered utterly useless until 5.4. With the change to form shift this is going to really shake things up with the GL being traited out for future patches. Is this the great fix? Just let Form Shift reset the timer without....shifting forms? Are they going to rename it to?

I am going to bring up another argument as well. Target dummies help you build your optimal rotation, but for monk it's freaking useless. How can I weave my oGCD's when 2 of them are behind and RNG wall? Use brotherhood? Yeah I might get 3 chackra during the timer. Everyone says monk is selfish DPS, but I argue that it is 100% dependent on a party to hit it's high numbers. So on a target dummy monk is putting out the minimal requirements, in a party is shines more then any other job/class maybe save for DRG or DNC. But those to job/classes shine great on their own without a party.

If your post is correct then that would be 1 piece of the puzzle, but we still need 2 more. 1) RNG crit/chackra and 2) will GL be changed to trait in 5.4 reworking the WHOLE job. Fix #1 and just give us back Internal Release. I seriously don't know why you took it away. #2 is opening Pandora's box really, and once it's open we may not like it all. Or they actually put some thought into it this time and realize they have 1 shot to get it right. If they get it wrong Monk is dead and nobody will play it.