The old Monk rotation is back

[Shurrikhan]

they said in no uncertain terms that monk's core rotation in Dawntrail wasn't going to change. They messed up, and they're fixing it.

The rotation as it was before the adjustment took 36 GCDs to loop back around into itself, or more than 2 minutes. This is a good change.

Except, at higher Skill Speed, we've actually been able to run two True Strikes per Twin Snakes outside of Demolish/Twin durations with formless GCDs (Blitz, Fracture, Touch of Death) from ARR through to Endwalker (though its advantage was at its most pitiful in Endwalker). So the ammo change still doesn't very well emulate what we used to have. And it still lacks any interaction with our CDs, be they soft (old Demolish) or hard (PB → Blitzes).

Also 36 GCDs is at most 72 seconds for Monk. No one takes more than 120 seconds to do 36 GCDs. Even the base GCD takes a mere 90s to do 36 GCDs. EDIT: He already corrected himself.

Imo, the change again misses the point. A "72s" loop (it wasn't, as you had PB, Blitzes, and Fire's Reply) was fine. That it didn't necessarily loop per or around RoF or Brotherhood (i.e., per 60 or 120s) was fine. Requiring new muscle memory (for those using standard loop instead of any adjustment) is fine. What wasn't fine was the lack of interaction or nuke-GCD besides Opo-spender, and that remains unchanged.