The Monk Temple Reborn

[Butcherboy]

So here's my real question. Did we get anything for generating GL beside PB. I heared on that live letter YOSHI mention that he want mnk to have less downtime.

[Shiggysonson]

I think we get 6 new abilities because chakra is useless on its own. We probably learn chakra and tornado kick or purify at the same time.

[Atreides]

So here's my real question. Did we get anything for generating GL beside PB. I heared on that live letter YOSHI mention that he want mnk to have less downtime.

We get an ability that lets us swap stances when there's nothing around to hit, so you can get your Courl stance ready for when the boss is attackable again.
That and we can dump our GL3 Stack for a high potency skill when you know that you won't be able to refresh your stacks durring that downtime anyway.

[Craiger]

So here's my real question. Did we get anything for generating GL beside PB. I heared on that live letter YOSHI mention that he want mnk to have less downtime.

Because he speaks in Japanese, there is always some mistranslation over to English, or maybe not mistranslation exactly, but it can sometimes be interpreted in the wrong way.

Yoshi-P simply meant that MNK is getting more things to do when you can't hit anything, rather than just watching your stacks fall off. Now you will instead use up all your GL stacks on a huge attack right before the boss jumps away or something, so the downtime is less of a pain for MNK, and then when you can't hit anything, you can still "move form"(or whatever it will be called) and Chakra(whether it's GCD or not).

They're making the downtime more enjoyable, not completely removing the aspect of keeping GL stacks.

Because of the move form ability, you will be able to gain your first GL stack faster though, so it gets a little better on that front too.

[ColdestHeaven]

i went over most of the monk animations, and the spiral under your characters feet isnt an absolute rule, arm of the destroyer has a blue mark, steel peak has a yellow mark, which is opposite to what this rule is supposed to be, i wouldnt throw out the idea of using that to get an idea of skills in the future though, i just dont know how well it can be trusted, especially with skills yet to be officially released.

I just noticed that too...odd. Abilities regarded as spells (PLD Oaths, BRD songs and Flash) have no indicator, as a rule, yet some like Brutal Swing and Gust Slash show no signs at all. Also, Circle of Scorn/Spirits Within (maybe Repelling Shot too? Couldn't see clearly) use the weaponskill indicator despite being not. Maybe a mistake, maybe not. I retract the previous statement anyway, thank you for making me notice that. That sure saved me some headaches for seeing so many oGCDs in the DRK video lol.

[Butcherboy]

Ok I awesome. That's what I have understood so far and what I have spreading to the rest of my mnk pupils. That is awesome news. Here I thought were getting neglected. Like the drg getting crit party buff and ninja with debuff party wide and now a life surge buff like skill.

[Butcherboy]

Will our rotation be change come the expansion pack? With the new skillz were getting it seem a lot of them will be access while we have 5 stack thus making it situational. Example, the new skill we have that enables to jump 3 form, that skill I don't see being added to the PB opener since that's the point of PB. I can see the elixir drive being added if it's not part of the 5 stack. May be the forbidden chakra WS dice it doesn't consume GL.

Also how is chakra generated? Will it be wrath, a WS = 1 chakra? Or will there be a skill that will give us 5 stack? If it is WS=1 chakra then I could see that being implemented to our PB opener.

Right now I open with during boss fights
ST PB SP BFB SP IR DM HF DK SPEAK TWIN(PB ends) STR POT TOD, then proceed with my 123 , popping Ogcd when up and refreshing dots.

If the ED and the new range attack we have is not part of the chakra, I could see that being implemented since it'll be ogcd(hopefully). What do u all thinks and thought.

[Zamii]

the new skill we have that enables to jump 3 form, that skill I don't see being added to the PB opener since that's the point of PB. I can see the elixir drive being added if it's not part of the 5 stack. May be the forbidden chakra WS dice it doesn't consume GL.

Also how is chakra generated? Will it be wrath, a WS = 1 chakra? Or will there be a skill that will give us 5 stack? If it is WS=1 chakra then I could see that being implemented to our PB opener.

the change form skill will be used for openers to allow an extra hit at the start in a form of our choosing, for example, i might want to do a dragon kick at the start with the debuff, then move into PB for the 5 skills there.

as for generating chakra, unless they implement a second method, they already said it was done 1 stack at a time via the skill "chakra"

[Butcherboy]

Ohh so I can do Change form ST DK PB THEN THE REST. This will be amazing, opening all moves under DK debuff. Explain a bit more in chakra since I'm having a hard time understanding. So your we have a skill called chakra once activated grant us 5 stack or is it activate chakra and while under chakra buff grants us stack per WS?

[Butcherboy]

This changing form skill is almost like a mini PB, so the next question is this. If I change for and do either RB SP OR DM will it grant me GL1?