Thread: 5.0 MNK Problems

Honestly... this may be controversial; but just remove Greased Lightning speed increase and make that a permanent trait. Keep the stack building for damage, but make the speed an 'always-on' thing

The single most frustrating element of the class is building these stacks up. From the very beginning of levelling monk, the first thing you are struck with is how impossibly infuriating playing the class is if the tank isn't chaining mobs together (I main tank, and chaining mobs in such a fashion that is conducive to monk isn't always possible.... in fact is rarely possible as you can at most, chain 3 series of mobs together before an obstacle presents itself, like a boss room, or a blocked door/path)
Got your stacks? Too bad, it's a phase change, start again.

The satisfaction of monk comes from its skill speed, so seperate the speed increase from GL and make it permanent, whilst keeping the stacking damage from it a mechanic you can build up. Then you have the speed to reach max greased lightning in a shorter time frame whilst also maintaining the satisfying skill speed


[Edit; apologies, I was directing criticism at the classes function overall, not the current issues main-monks have with the class. My suggestions would do little to alleviate the 'dps' issues.]