Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
No, please, to both of these.

Thunderclap is a fine replacement for Shoulder Tackle. We merely should have gotten back its apm elsewhere. (Technically, we did, via increased Chakra intake, but that still leaves necessary compensation for the apm lost from removing Elixir Field and the oGCD that carries the name and animation of what was TK.)

Six-sided Star is fine as a finisher and disengage. I'd rather have a situational tool than empty apm. That's not to say that I dislike APM; I'm just not willing to lose a single tool for it, especially when increased apm does not oblige the removal of decent tools. And, yes, SSS is a decent tool -- though no better than "decent" -- and certainly has more reason to exist as a given button than does Meditation or, especially, Form Shift.
Thunderclap has 3 charges specifically to be used as a means of engaging and disengaging from an enemy so I fail to see the need of SSS as another disengagement tool. MNK needs more than just niche or decent skills, it needs direction in its job design. Right now, MNK just has a lot of button bloat with no substance to them that either need to be reworked or just flat out removed and SSS is one of those skills that desperately needs something to make it actually usable rather than being another One Ilm Punch.