Monk Needs a Complete Rework

[wereotter]

For all intents and purposes, the only "intended" rotation is whatever the hell is optimal. You're not gaining "free" damage by getting 300 more potency under a single raid buff if you're ultimately losing even more than that by getting fewer Blitzes, Demolish ticks, or True Strikes (over Twin) in the fight, however.

You either didn't read or didn't understand what I said. I didn't say you're not performing blitzes, I said if the first three are rising phoenix, therefore no elixir field and no phantom rush in the first 80 seconds, then from that point onward, every phantom rush, provided you're using your cooldowns when they come up, will happen under the 120 second raid-wide buff rotation and occur while you have riddle of fire up. But because you're not getting your first phantom rush until two minutes into the fight, it takes at least a 6 minute encounter for this to be a DPS increase over perfoming blitzes in such a way as to get to phantom rush as soon as possible, thereby never having it align with the 60/90/120 second buff windows as it will always fall at the 80 second mark in that rotation. As far as free damage, I'm counting any damage you're not directly responsible for creating. Adjust your rotation to refresh demolish while trick attack is up or an astro gives you a buff? That's free damage. Align your big burst so you're doing it under battle litany? That's free damage.

And as far as this is concerned, there is an actual intended rotation when the developers themselves stated they intended that phantom rush not ever align with the raid cooldowns. Any solution we come up with that gets it to align is not what they intended for us to do. They do design jobs with a rotation in mind they intend for players to follow, and while often they don't care if we create a different one, they also have, in the past, changed skills when we create a rotation they don't want us doing, which is exactly what happened with the tornado kick, wind tackle rotation from stormblood.