Monk Fists of Earth/Wind/Fire?

[IceSpear]

Can someone tell me what they actually do? The tooltip says one thing, but the buff says another. :/

[Zigkid3]

fire: deal 5% more damage
earth: take 10% less damage
wind: allows you to run marginally faster (does not decrease gcd!)

[IceSpear]

OK thanks for your help.

[Rochetm]

Fire and Earth are very useful currently... Wind makes me sad.

[Hekmatyar-Koko]

The ease with which to change between Fire & Earth is very useful. An extra 10% resistance to drop when a primal or boss uses an ability, then switch right on back to Fire.

Without a buff to the inc in movement speed I cannot see a use to Wind. An inc in skill speed (gcd) would be hard to make useful too, as it would either be outclassed by Fire's damage buff, or reach a point where it exceeds Fire's damage potential, which would render either useless.

Personally I think if it would regen TP at the cost lower damage whilst active, perhaps double TP regen for 50% less damage, it would be much more useful. Monk is primarily based on never ending little hits that all add up, and running out of TP with a high speed / high damage rotation is frustrating.

Maybe even replacing MP with a chakra bar (as no-one uses MP moves on monk) which feeds the Fists of Earth/Fire/Wind's abilities could be a way to enhance their usefulness.