Monk Positionals 6.0

[Shurrikhan]

Well, we lost 3 offensive oGCDs. That's a speed drop, and I'd like something to make up for it. It's exacerbated by not having to move as much with the positionals removed. Maybe I should have said APM instead. It doesn't have to be the blitz that becomes oGCDs, I just want more APM. I care more about that than seeing all of an animation if it DID have to be blitz, but of course it doesn't have to be.

If we're talking speed, that's a mere matter of APM. At 30s CDs, TK, EF, and SC each gave 2, so that totals to 6 apm lost -- significant, but recoverable. That's something that can be made up for via Chakra intake (or, ofc, by returning any of said oGCDs). 30 more Chakra per minute would produce an identical effect. We're probably between a third and half way to that already, in an average minute, due to the DM / BrH changes. The speed can easily be tuned, such as even by including periodic damage (AAs, Demo) as possible Chakra contributors or, though less effective, by swapping Brotherhood from guaranteeing Chakra gen to simply adding a further Chakra per weaponskill atop whatever would have normally have been given. Taking Blitz off the GCD would provide 1.33 extra apm, but would ultimately just feel like button swapping. Which brings us to the next possibility...

But if by "speed" you actually mean "sense of urgency induced by cognitive load", then that just means it need more of any given kind of mechanic affecting optimizable periods (breadth) or more to do within any of those mechanics (depth). Decisions like the above add to that, however, not subtract. By simply replacing a Blitz GCD with a regular GCD, as per your suggestion to take Blitz off the GCD, you'd have little change to speed, but you would have reduced cognitive load and thus the sense of urgency at particular moments per minute, all at the cost of being able to see our Blitz animations if one need weave anything else into the GCD's gap.