Monk's skill Riddle of Earth is useless

[Meui]

I've also already ran into at least one situation that required me to get hit by a dodge-able AoE to keep stacks in the Royal Menagerie. Not EX/Savage content but the poor design philosophy still applies.

Are you talking about that one really big attack he does that pushes everyone back? Because that's what I did, too. I'll be the only one standing in it with RoE going - and I can't help but feel silly. If the damage is unavoidable, sure okay, but when you have some of us monks purposely eating damage to preserve our GL3 from dropping? It really does just feel like poor design.