Monk needs more synergy...thoughts?

[Barghest1210]

Over all I think the devs had their hearts in the right place when it concerns us but they tripped and face planted alittle. But its not a disater and just requires certain quality of life changes.

Form Shift: Be honest the purpose of this move is to allow us to ether start a fight with demolish or snap punch. Or allow us to save our GL stacks in a pinch. So why have us go through all the hoops? Lets make this what it effectively is, a weaker version of Perfect Balance.
My fix: Make it a buff that like PB allows the use of any one move regardless of form with a 12 second CD.

Meditation: Again good idea, hearts in the right place, executed poorly.
My fix: Simple, take it off the global cooldown. Allow us to prime this awesome move between our combos. You could even justify this through the monks story, we open new chakras in combat. We need to be able to use these moves more often.

[Barghest1210]

Purification: Get rid of it. On a conceptual/aesthetic side of things I like it but its entirely unnecessary while we have invigorate.
My fix: Replace this with the monk version of the thundercloud trait. Where we have a chance on GL stack to be able to use Tornado Kick for free without losing our current GL stacks.

With the Forbidden Chakra and Tornado Kick I like to think of it as if the expansion was Christmas and for x-mas SE gave the monk community these really cool umbrellas. They look awesome and we like them but we only ever get to use them when it rains while the rest of the classes got more practical things they can use often. But as Ive been playing this game Ive seen SE really watch the community and react to player feedback so Im confident we'll see some changes we can be satisfied with. Hope you liked my ideas though, square they are free to steal be my guest.

[Sapphic]

Purification: Get rid of it. On a conceptual/aesthetic side of things I like it but its entirely unnecessary while we have invigorate.
My fix: Replace this with the monk version of the thundercloud trait. Where we have a chance on GL stack to be able to use Tornado Kick for free without losing our current GL stacks.

Hows about wait for Alexander extreme and see if that additional 300 TP will outweigh the damage from Forbidden before making full judgement. Content is not really pushing us to the limits yet.

[w153m4n]

Purification: Get rid of it. On a conceptual/aesthetic side of things I like it but its entirely unnecessary while we have invigorate.
My fix: Replace this with the monk version of the thundercloud trait. Where we have a chance on GL stack to be able to use Tornado Kick for free without losing our current GL stacks.
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Too early indeed, Purification allows MNK to do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hphogM-qwMk (credit to Kekona).
now what's the use of longevity outside of dummy hitting is yet to be discovered... "Please look forward to it"

[Barghest1210]

perhaps but I still think we need a thundercloud like trait so we can actually use our best new toy more often