Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
Perfect Balance wasn't changed to birth the TK rotation. The TK rotation was afforded by the change to Wind Tackle -> Riddle of Wind and (in part, by RoF's slow giving room for double-weaves for higher-ping players and triple-weaves for low-ping players -- TK, FoW, WT, <GCD>, RoW...).

And it's worth noting that RoF's damage buff was huge for its time, plenty worth its effectively sacrificing GL's speed bonus to more than double its damage bonus over high-oGCD-potency periods, and offered ways to resync rotation for future bursts.

Late Stormblood Monk was odd, but far from awful, be that in performance or play.
They reduced the CD on Perfect Balance, which was all that was needed for the TK rotation to come into fruition. Riddle of Wind was a part of it, sure but it didn't make it possible on its own.