Monk rework/dmg nerf idea.

[Vendalwind]

Making Monk switch back to Fists of Fire to use Riddle of Fire is basically just adding a weaker version of the slow that everyone hated back to the job with extra steps.

The elemental Fists aren’t part of Monks identity, they’re bloat. You could remove them completely at any point in Monk’s history and add whatever damage Fists of Fire had directly to Monk and you wouldn’t notice a thing.

I dont disagree that that is how it has been. But the devs have kept fists of* since the beginning. To me that says even tho the stances have largely failed to do anything significant they are a part of the stylistic identity of monk. When i mained monk back in ARR pre NIN release i loved the idea of them but thought they were indeed pointless.

Idealisticaly all three fists would mark a phase change or style change in play, but to do that properly would cause button bloat likely. Unless certain buttons or moves just transformed when switching active fist. But making so many new abilities would not ever happen in the near future.

I just dont see them diseappearing. Mechanically they are useless, but mnk mains have wanted them gone since ARR and welll.... they havent gone yet. So i personally would like to see them be given a purpose. Ie fists of wind as the basic, fists of fire as the burst, and earth as the recovery/defensive. Since NIN released i havent played monk again seriously so i really dont know "what monks want" but i do know what would make me inspired to play the class again.