Monk/Pugilist: Useless Skills

[ElHeggunte]

Your alternative is Twin snakes, which has 140 potency. How is 10 more potency and a higher chance for crit not incentive for using it? As long as you have the twin snakes buff up, you should be using True strike.

There really isn't much incentive to use True Strike over Twin Snakes until you have the Skill Speed (430+) to alternate safely. Losing Twin Snakes even for a few seconds hurts your damage far more than missing out on 10 extra potency. I wouldn't go so far as to call True Strike "useless", but it's certainly a strange design choice to require you to be decked out in end-game gear to make efficient use of a skill you've had since level 2.

[UrbanLucrece]

Is the OP trolling or is this the DPS2013 O_o

[StreamMonster]

Tell that to Monks who solo interrupt ADS in Binding Coil

^This. The nodes cast High Voltage every 20 sec after their initial High Voltage. ADS does it about every 17-20 sec. Easily done by a competent mnk.

[Myrhn]

You know One Inch Punch is the only skill that dispel buffs from mobs right? Maybe now is not that usefull on most encounter but there is real potencial there

[Dire]

Tell that to Monks who solo interrupt ADS in Binding Coil

This. Granted Monks have a really hard time getting the very first interrupt in as ADS casts immediately so it's safer that I get that one; then I switch to adds and a good Monk has zero trouble throughout the fight. OP, your problems with silence are an L2P issue more than anything else, it would appear.

[Nibb]

only one skill come to my mind.... HAYMAKER!

Don't think you know how to use Haymaker properly if you think it's useless.

[silentwindfr]

in a group you are normally don't take the aggro , nor hit if the the tank do a good jobs.
and feint from drg (that you can get) can be used freely.

Haymaker is a rest of the monk from V1... for a dps class it's a useless skill:
1) you need to evade an attack
2) it's in the GCD, means you will loose 1 skill in your rotation for launch it.

as it stand is the most useless skill of the monk.

[Nibb]

in a group you are normally don't take the aggro , nor hit if the the tank do a good jobs.
and feint from drg (that you can get) can be used freely.

Haymaker is a rest of the monk from V1... for a dps class it's a useless skill:
1) you need to evade an attack
2) it's in the GCD, means you will loose 1 skill in your rotation for launch it.

as it stand is the most useless skill of the monk.

It's your hardest hitting ability that doesn't require a positional requirement. A lot of times you will take a hit, whether it's from an add or whatever, it happens. It's not your most useful skill but it's far from useless.

[Kiokin]

It's your hardest hitting ability that doesn't require a positional requirement. A lot of times you will take a hit, whether it's from an add or whatever, it happens. It's not your most useful skill but it's far from useless.

Until you have a ridiculous amount of Skill Speed (which you shouldn't go out of your way to get...) you only have room for 2 out of stance moves, unless you want to lose Greased Lightning. Those two allowances are taken up by Touch of Death and Fracture. So, unless those two are already up, and you HAPPEN to dodge an ability, Haymaker is incredibly useless.

[Subucnimorning]

Actually with full DL/relic you have space for three non stance abilities which I wouldn't consider "ridiculous skill speed".