Dragoon, Monk and Design Philosophy Discrepancy

[Sora_Oathkeeper]

You're absolutely right, the monk kit next to no synergy anymore. The best synergy we had was internal release and deep meditation, and RoF (despite my dislike of the slowdown) along with Brotherhood for a nice flow of TFC if rng was good, but at least every other cycle IR was up also which made it even more reliable, despite still being RNG. There's no real reward for anything anymore other than potency boosts on positionals, which every melee job has, and of course it was dragoon that gets a new skill in the form of raiden thrust for adhering to positional requirements, you'd think the job with the most positionals would have that sort of trait as it's kind of Monk's thing to always be in positon. I think it would be an interesting concept if Monk got a new GCD rotation for maintaining positionals.

For example, meeting the requirements for Opo-opo form attacks upgrades Raptor form attacks, and they upgrade coeurl attacks etc... successfully landing all 3 form attack positionals could enable either a chakra stack or another new attack. That would help true north synergize with our positional requirements as it does for raiden thrust on dragoon. Of course this would be high risk high reward, if you miss then you don't get the bonuses, but if you land them you are rewarded. I'd also like to see synergy between our chakra and GL through our oGCDs. TFC could interact as a OGCD combo starter (think GNB and continuation), we use TFC which could grant 'Six Sided Star Ready (as an ogcd)', once 6SS gets used it could grant 'Tornado Kick Ready', that would end the oGCD rotation. This rotation could stem from gaining our 5 chakras which would be reliant on positionals rather than RNG. BH could just be a raid 5% damage for everyone instead of physical only on a 3min CD. RoF would just be a straight 15-20% damage buff with no slowdown attached. And I would streamline GL maintenance skills. Form Shift would just be a GCD perfect balance which enables one weaponskill regardless of form so that we don't have to do busy work mashing form shift to get into the right form as well as refresh the current GL stack. Perfect Balance should just be 60s, no one likes dropping stacks; it's punishing enough as it is, let alone having PB at 2 mins. As a reward for keeping GL up, keeping with the flow of speed it could enable 100 fists; a 100 potency, ten fold attack every minute.

They originally intended Monk to play like a fighter with combos, but I feel like we don't really have that right now. My proposed changes would reward positionals as well as enable a combo system for oGCDs once TFC is ready, granting us synergy with the chakra system. I think it would feel a lot more fun to play than current Monk at least and feel more high risk high reward.