Monk Positionals 6.0

[Monk101]

(I'm no expert on the matter, especially when this is newly dropped changes, but my time on a dummy led to me doing a 2 PB -> 1 PB -> 2 PB rotation as I saved them for RoF)

This is what I found as well. Essentially Monk will alternate between a larger burst and a smaller burst every 60s which is fine. It feels a little strange that Tornado kick/Phantom Rush will never align with Brotherhood but the damage increase isn’t that much anyway.
I think Masterful Blitz itself is a good addition to the Monk kit. I was actually very excited when I saw this on the live letter. However, it doesn’t justify removing any positional and oGCD. This is worsened by the fact that RoE is rendered virtually redundant and RoW has a weird 90s CD, which means it will only align with RoF once every 3 RoF. I understand this might be done to spread the damage out but I don’t think this is the right approach. Messing around with Samurai made me realised how incomplete the current and even the Shb Monk kit is. It almost feels like SE didn’t have enough time to finish the monk design. EW certainly made it even worse though. At the current state, I doubt any new monk player will stick with Monk for long, knowing that Monk lost its job defining feature and has pretty much stagnant job progression after level 60. I will very likely move on to more complete melee jobs like Samurai if SE don’t revert the change to positionals.

[ssunny2008]

Messing around with Samurai made me realised how incomplete the current and even the Shb Monk kit is.

Shb MNK pre the dumbdown of GL was the best so far. Yes we still had some useless skills, but we building up GL first without a 1,9s button bloat followed by some extra movement speed on GL4 was great to play. No matter how awkward an Anatman-opener or so got used to be played, Fists of Wind with GL4 was superior.
To cut GL to leave a fast positional-class without extra movement, just to cut positionals at all for a splitted PB with some re-used skills is just cancer. Instead of fixing the issues or leaving us what has been loved, they fckd up everything.

[Shurrikhan]

This is what I found as well. Essentially Monk will alternate between a larger burst and a smaller burst every 60s which is fine. It feels a little strange that Tornado kick/Phantom Rush will never align with Brotherhood but the damage increase isn’t that much anyway.
I think Masterful Blitz itself is a good addition to the Monk kit. I was actually very excited when I saw this on the live letter. However, it doesn’t justify removing any positional and oGCD. This is worsened by the fact that RoE is rendered virtually redundant and RoW has a weird 90s CD, which means it will only align with RoF once every 3 RoF. I understand this might be done to spread the damage out but I don’t think this is the right approach. Messing around with Samurai made me realised how incomplete the current and even the Shb Monk kit is. It almost feels like SE didn’t have enough time to finish the monk design. EW certainly made it even worse though. At the current state, I doubt any new monk player will stick with Monk for long, knowing that Monk lost its job defining feature and has pretty much stagnant job progression after level 60. I will very likely move on to more complete melee jobs like Samurai if SE don’t revert the change to positionals.

Monk definitely seems to pop off in dungeon AoE if able to use both Phantom/Nado and Lunar Blitz within the same PB window.

Though, until level 90 that honestly seems to have as much to do with the number of Shadows of the Destroyer you can get off under RoF and BroH as the Blitzes themselves...

I do wish the Formless Fist came from your last PB charge spent rather than from the Blitz, though.