Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
While it's not really used in such a manner, Dragonfire Dive is still an engagement tool. In other words it can serve a purpose outside dealing damage.

Howling fist doesn't.

That said, Howling Fist is a clear example of a skill that should have upgraded instead of being removed - Where Howling Fist with 5 chakra morphs into Enlightenment, and then Enlightenment's potency could have been significantly higher to add in some measure of constraint with Chakra instead of "Forbidden the moment you're full"
Technically Howling fist was our only low level skill that could hit a mob outside of Melee range.

While that works for Samurai's Hissatsu:Senei/Guren, it wouldn't work on Monk. A Samurai knows how much Kenki they'll need when Hissatsu:Senei/Guren is coming up and they build Kenki consistently with every GCD, so they can pause in their Shinten use and just build gauge, and if they're slightly off they won't overflow because there's overhead built into the gauge. Monk's flow of Chakra can do neither of those things. Its inconsistent being behind two layers of RNG and you either have 5 Chakra or you don't when it comes to using a skill. So when approaching the Enlightenment/Howling Fist cooldown a Monk could just be unable to use it because of RNG deciding it doesn't want to cooperate, or they would have to sit on 5 Chakra and miss out on Chakras proccing and miss out on damage.

In theory they could mitigate it by making Enlightenment/Howling Fist always align with Brotherhood, but Brotherhood is party comp dependent (and also RNG) so if it's a Monk and 3 Casters, you may not see the 5 Chakras you need. You could also just get insanely unlucky and not get the Chakras in a physical composition either.