Monk's skill Riddle of Earth is useless

[SargentToughie]

I think the biggest problem about Riddle of Earth only refreshing GL3 on Earth's Reply is the fact that it incentivizes taking damage on a role that should always maximize avoiding damage whenever possible. You're going to see encounters moving forward in which Monks stand in AoE that would otherwise be avoidable just for the sake of refreshing their stacks.

It's an absolutely terrible skill that only sees use in rare situations where you're probably already going to die anyway (tank dies and you're 2nd on the hate chart), or rewards Monks for making playstyle decisions that put more burden on the healers. And that's not even to get into Tackle Mastery, and what an absolute joke that is.

Monk needs a bit of attention because these skills are just -bad-.

[DatPotato]

Did the final trial and started susano'o ex. This skill is far from useless guys... on hit it gives you the extra buff and refresh gl, and this for all the knock back and aoe bait you have to deal with, this skill is so far, very handy

imo only bad skill so far is tackle mastery, but I'm stil waiting maybe raid will explain us why such skill maybe not. I was very upset before trying Monk 70 but now I'm very satisfied with it, gonna main it for this extension one more time

[Pure_Kouhai]

lvl 70 monk with quite a bit of experience in susanoo ex/tried laskhmi ex here
i can safely say that riddle of earth was the biggest surprise in term of usefulness so far; all the primals have a lot of mechanics where you'll Have to get hit by raidwide aoes and/or move away
the GL refresh is very handy on those in case you were targeted at a bad time and you have to go to the other side of the arena for a bit and the 20% defense buff is very very much appreciated during susanoo Ex at the very least

although this does raise the problem of making tornado kick even more useless, i think riddle of earth is just fine atm
of course you shouldn't force yourself to use it (and it's not for every fight) but i think it being relevant in endgame content is good

[Kahnom]

This skill should just "Refresh Greased Lightning upon used" and has 180 sec cooldown.
Fist of earth and earth's reply ain't neccessary at all.

[Orbiaus]

I'm actually using it in content a lot. I can see where they want us to use it. I don't actually mind it now.

[Clethoria]

I use it in PvP. And that's it. Though when I'm getting smashed from all sides by a BRD/PLD/RDM it only keeps me alive for exactly 1/2 a second longer! Maybe it has some use for PvE like solo-ing a FATE or solo duty. But in group instances? Not so much.

[JinRoSul]

I agree that Riddle of Earth is useless, but it can be used during meteors as well as other unaviodable damage from bosses.

[Glyth]

In case my initial post wasn't obvious with the Nidhogg image, there's been plenty of cases where, as a monk, you're taking multiple hits of damage as a mechanic alone, not just being dumb and sitting in AoEs. It was prevalent in Heavensward, from what I'm hearing will be prevalent in Stormblood as well. Far from useless. o.o

[MercuryD]

PvP version pretty useless but starting in susano normal I was setting it's use.

[TrophyGalore]

So in doing the SB content I have only found a single use in which Riddle of Earth is used in order to maintain GL stacks. The damage reduction is never needed currently, this might change in raid content but highly unlikely. Only time I have used it is in Susano EX at end of Sword Phase to keep GL stacks before last phase. The requirement of getting hit in order to keep GL stacks isn't worth getting hit as most likely you'll be able to keep up GL stacks. In my opinion Tornado Kick>Riddle of Earth. As you still have more oportunities to use Tornado Kick over Riddle of Earth.