Monk Positionals 6.0

[wereotter]

So disappointed.

Job got hit HARD with the idiot stick. Guess all the whiners got their way, job is hollowed out and looks boring AF. No need to move around, no OGCD skills. Monk is now the most braindead job in the game. And willing to bet rather than have these changes draw players to the job, those of us who stuck with it through all the crap are even more likely to just drop it. I get needing to drop them for twin snakes and true strike to make the blitz system work, but can anyone give a legitimate reason dragon kick and bootshine also needed theirs removed too?

Now with Riddle of Earth and True North there's literally no reason to move off the boss's flank and just pop a position ignoring skill every time you need to refresh demolish. Congrats SE, you finally killed monk, as you've seemed to intent to do.

[Mikey_R]

Now with Riddle of Earth and True North there's literally no reason to move off the boss's flank and just pop a position ignoring skill every time you need to refresh demolish. Congrats SE, you finally killed monk, as you've seemed to intent to do.

Riddle of Earth no longer removes positional requirements, so it is a 3 charge, 30 second cooldown, 10 second duration 20% damage reduction. Lets be honest, why.

[wereotter]

Riddle of Earth no longer removes positional requirements, so it is a 3 charge, 30 second cooldown, 10 second duration 20% damage reduction. Lets be honest, why.

missed that part of the notes, but I stand by my criticism of the rework. And what do you know, they didn't escape the trap of keeping useless skills on monk. Why does the job need 3 charges of a defense increasing skill? We're not a tank, and we're not samurais who collect vuln stacks from standing in mechanics like they're puffy stickers.

1st. Easy...bootshine and dragon kick are no longer the focus of the job...nor is perfect balance 5 charge burst. The focus is Forms, Chakra, Blitz.

2nd. Yet another two example of crutches the job used to "stay complex and rewarding", wouldn't surprise me at all if true north get's deleted.

dragon kick and bootshine were the focus of the job for the brief window between the removal of greased lightning and now. Prior to that, they weren't the focus, they were the reward for playing correctly.

and yes, they removed your "crutch" and now the job has no leg to stand on. It has nothing left. Its OGCDs have all been removed, and it's positional attacks are gone too. Monk now is take ninja but remove its trick attack, ninjutsu, and ninki gauge. Sure sounds like fun, eh?

[Sqwall]

So disappointed.

Job got hit HARD with the idiot stick. Guess all the whiners got their way, job is hollowed out and looks boring AF. No need to move around, no OGCD skills. Monk is now the most braindead job in the game. And willing to bet rather than have these changes draw players to the job, those of us who stuck with it through all the crap are even more likely to just drop it. I get needing to drop them for twin snakes and true strike to make the blitz system work, but can anyone give a legitimate reason dragon kick and bootshine also needed theirs removed too?

Now with Riddle of Earth and True North there's literally no reason to move off the boss's flank and just pop a position ignoring skill every time you need to refresh demolish. Congrats SE, you finally killed monk, as you've seemed to intent to do.

1st. Easy...bootshine and dragon kick are no longer the focus of the job...nor is perfect balance 5 charge burst. The focus is Forms, Chakra, Blitz.

2nd. Yet another two example of crutches the job used to "stay complex and rewarding", wouldn't surprise me at all if true north get's deleted.