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    Tani Shirai
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    Monk Lv 100
    The issue to me is simply that Refulgent Arrow SHARES the proc with Straighter Shot. The only gameplay effect of this is that one has to reactivate Straight Shot sooner, because if you proc a Straighter Shot, you are essentially forbidden from using Straight Shot. Instead, it needs to go to Refulgent. There is no actual thought involved in picking between Straighter and Refulgent. You ONLY have to remember that you not only can't let Straight Shot's buff drop, but can't let it be within a GCD of dropping.

    What would actually give it an option is for Heavy Shot, instead, to turn into Refulgent Arrow on Straighter Shot, and for Straighter Shot (rather, the Heavier Shot trait) itself to be replaced by the addition of Refulgent Arrow. Now you can bank the Refulgent for a GCD or two. Granted, that would cause less gambling than the current version (if one is hoping... not to proc), and would allow for more Heavy Shot uses over time, as there'd be no risk of going without the Crit buff for Refulgent itself or the next Iron Jaws. But mostly it saves a hotbar slot simply with the removal of a fake option.

    Ideally, I'd like to see something similar done with Perfect Pitch. Once entering Wanderer's Minuet, I'd like for Bloodletter to become Perfect Pitch. Essentially, it runs of River of Blood procs and a 15-second refresh (automatic stack gain) in the same way as Bloodletter and Rain of Death. It's just that each option now holds up to 3 procs or refreshes for a single, increasingly powerful blow. Rain of Death in turn becomes Dissonance, which deals splash AoE damage. Complexity mostly unchanged, or faintly augmented since one doesn't want to waste the refresh on a tri-stack, but another hotbar slot is saved.
    tl;dr: Save two hotbar slots for little to no change to engagement and greatly reduced frustration by replacing Heavier Shot (trait) with Refulgent Arrow and causing Refulgent Arrow to replace Heavy Shot on proc (or by attaching +Crit to RA and having it replace Straighter Shot), and by turning Bloodletter and Rain of Death into Pitch Perfect (and a newly added Dissonance 3-stack WM AoE, generally inferior to RoD over time).
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    Last edited by Shurrikhan; 07-21-2017 at 06:44 PM.