Quote Originally Posted by MasyMasy View Post
This is the biggest problem I perceive Monk to have. The entire class is built around Greased Lightning. A buff that shows its age. Other simliar maintenance buffs such as Blood of the Dragon, Enochian, and Huton have gotten better with age.QoL changes have effectively made them into one button that you hit once, maybe twice a fight. Greased Lightning however takes even longer to generate and has gotten even more punishing to lose, It's so much of a problem that it's had FOUR whole skills dedicated to maintaining it. With Shadowbringers it's gotten glaringly obvious that it's time for Greased Lightning to change.
they don't need to change gl at all, they just need to reduce the amount of gl maint skills, i mean, you can tell what 2 of them are not needed and they can be all mixed on 2 skills
perfect balance at 60s recast is one, and a reworked anatman is other
me solution for anatman is what instead of forcing you to stand still to keep your stacks(and form) frozen, it should just frozen them when used until your next action, and if you stand still, it generates chakras, one of the big issues of monk atm is what they are too spammy on downtime(meditation + form shift), and it gets tiring, and reworking anatman this way it could fix this issue as a whole
as for what to do whit riddle of earth and SSS?
riddle of earth could just a cd what gives you chakra when used, because other of the issues this job sufers is what we do not get enought chakras on boss battles
and dunno what to do whit SSS, i rarely use it at all, is really a very niche skill since the 99% of the time you can refresh gl by using a gcd skill or in the worst case anatman does it
imo their solution to avoid the tornado kick rotation is bad, if they wanted people to not use tornado kick on the rotation, either by making its recast timer longer, remove it altogether or make it into a ogcd to be used as part of your rotation free of gl cost, but instead they chosed the worst one, making perfect balance recast longer, making losing your gl stacks more punishing for no reason more than they do not want to change how tornado kick works