Monk Changes

[Kabooa]

My guess is it's because of their stated fear that Monk would be too hard to play with GL4 (which it isn't) led them to trim it out along with everything else they took. That's probably true of everything they removed barring One-Ilm Punch.

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"