Monk Positionals 6.0

[Hevens]

I had no idea having to unlearn positionals would feel this bad. Im not even done with ShB, on post msq (16 quests left). I miss Elixir field ogcd a lot more than I probably should, especially out of combat to avoid the cringe fall damage animation or just to see my character Kamehameha while run jumping in town like a boss. After 1-80 playing the job, I kind of want to swap to something else but it feels like its too late. I decided Monk was my main at level 74 (had PLD side by side leveling but had to choose unless I wanted to grind) and now I am stuck playing a job I am not having fun with. Might just boost PLD(74) or WHM(70) to 80 and shelve the class I want to actually play.

[Kolsykol]

I miss Elixir field ogcd a lot more than I probably should,

I don't understand why they made Flint Strike the skill that gets replaced...
It was a new ability, instead it's Elixir Field that stays the same?
Like instead of letting us use a new ability at 90 they just prioritized an old ogcd and turned it into a gcd instead lol?

Edit: Also I hate the Disciplined Fists icon, it looks too similar to a lot of other stuff and just blends together it's way harder to see than the old Twin Snakes.
I dunno why they changed this they did it on DRG and SAM too for the worse.

On SAM I thought that the red was going to be the damage buff because that seemed logical, but nope it's blue = damage and red = speed???

[ssunny2008]

I don't understand why they made Flint Strike the skill that gets replaced...
It was a new ability, instead it's Elixir Field that stays the same?
Like instead of letting us use a new ability at 90 they just prioritized an old ogcd and turned it into a gcd instead lol?

Edit: Also I hate the Disciplined Fists icon, it looks too similar to a lot of other stuff and just blends together it's way harder to see than the old Twin Snakes.
I dunno why they changed this they did it on DRG and SAM too for the worse.

On SAM I thought that the red was going to be the damage buff because that seemed logical, but nope it's blue = damage and red = speed???

Given to the tooltips it´s elixier field which is getting replaced by the phoenix-skill on 86 and TK by phantom on 90. (Sry don´t know the englisch names yet.)
Or do you mean something different?!

[Kolsykol]

Given to the tooltips it´s elixier field which is getting replaced by the phoenix-skill on 86 and TK by phantom on 90. (Sry don´t know the englisch names yet.)
Or do you mean something different?!

It's the other way around.

'' Flint Strike Mastery
Lv. 86 Upgrades Flint Strike to Rising Phoenix. ''

[Mikey_R]

Given to the tooltips it´s elixier field which is getting replaced by the phoenix-skill on 86 and TK by phantom on 90. (Sry don´t know the englisch names yet.)
Or do you mean something different?!

No, Flint Strike is getting replaced and Elixir Field is staying the same. The 3 main Blitzes at 90 will be Elixir Field, Rising Phoenix and Phantom Rush.

[ssunny2008]

No, Flint Strike is getting replaced and Elixir Field is staying the same. The 3 main Blitzes at 90 will be Elixir Field, Rising Phoenix and Phantom Rush.

Alright i see... there is a tooltip issue in german then. Rising pheonix tells me to open a Lunar Nadi instead of the Solar one. In english it seems all correct.

[Cizal]

I've played monk since arr and this is by far the worst the job has ever felt to play. Blitzes aren't interesting as they're currently designed, and especially not enough to warrant dumping every positional and every ogcd besides chakra based ones supposedly in service of them. Hoping for a miracle accident like in 4.3 again that makes everything work but more likely i'm just gonna end up switching jobs entirely cuz what's the point of playing a job that's basically just mashing together sam and nin's major mechanics in a worse way when i could play either of them instead?

[Kolsykol]

I've played monk since arr and this is by far the worst the job has ever felt to play. Blitzes aren't interesting as they're currently designed, and especially not enough to warrant dumping every positional and every ogcd besides chakra based ones supposedly in service of them. Hoping for a miracle accident like in 4.3 again that makes everything work but more likely i'm just gonna end up switching jobs entirely cuz what's the point of playing a job that's basically just mashing together sam and nin's major mechanics in a worse way when i could play either of them instead?

Honestly I'd rather take a significant CD reduction to Perfect Balance with some potency nerfs to make up for it.
The Job just feels so empty, especially now that the lack of positionals have sunk in and are on my mind, before I instinctually kept moving but now that I am not and I am just moving back and forth to get ready for Snap Punch or Demolish it's so booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooring....

[Dewslam]

Honestly I'd rather take a significant CD reduction to Perfect Balance with some potency nerfs to make up for it.
The Job just feels so empty, especially now that the lack of positionals have sunk in and are on my mind, before I instinctually kept moving but now that I am not and I am just moving back and forth to get ready for Snap Punch or Demolish it's so booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooring....

They should retool anatman and six sided star. Turn them into proper OGCDs or something to fill the niches tornado kick and elixir field used to or something.

[Kolsykol]

They should retool anatman and six sided star. Turn them into proper OGCDs or something to fill the niches tornado kick and elixir field used to or something.

SSS being made a ogcd and Anatman being made more useful would at least make it a tad more interesting.