Proposed fixes to Monk

[SpeckledBurd]

Okay that makes sense, but how exactly would partial Chakra attacks work? Maybe provide your full details on the idea? I'm very curious.

Essentially it would work the same way most other gauges work, where the Gauge is actually a resource you can manage and use rather than something you cap and drain in its entirety. So for example, it takes a certain Chakra minimum to use Forbidden Chakra/Enlightenment but you've got a threshold over it that you can continue to build it so you can dump it during phases where buffs align (IE, it costs 5 chakra to use them, it caps at 10/15/20). On the periphery there are other utility skills that you could use that cost more or less Chakra that can be spent on utility skills such as gap closers, disengages, more efficient potency wise Chakra skills on longer cooldowns, etc. It's rather derivative of Samurai, but as a Job I feel that it has one of the most well thought out Gauges so it makes for a good template.

But even without completely aping the way Samurai's gauge works, simply giving Monk some overhead in it's gauge for the extremely common situation of you capping on chakra at the tail end of your GCD/in the middle of it when you can't possibly spend it would be a huge quality of life change and prevent chakra from being lost.