
Originally Posted by
Shurrikhan
I haven't. Not remotely.
Why wonder? Riddle of Fire is what allows you to punch harder. Why would it be used with anything other than Fists of Fire? Swapping you to fire saved a stance cooldown, an oGCD gap, and provided further thematic distinction. Or, take Riddle of Earth. Its primary (albeit least important) effect was that it allowed you to retain the benefit of FoE even after having swapped out of it, or to double it if remaining in FoE. Again, I'd call it disappointing, largely because the stances themselves remained lackluster, but it doesn't lack for sense. It's far from puzzling.
In HW I asked that one generate Chakra passively every half GCD after having not attacked for half a GCD, effectively removing the button as to allow for TFC to be freed and used at any amount between 1 and 7 Chakra for proportionate potency. We instead kept the button and the overflow issues in a typically half-baked solution, but yes, I too came to despise the sound of Meditation, so I'm right there with you on this.
Clearly not all. I saw "doubles recast time" and thought "Oh, primarily a disengage; could be pretty useful." My disappointment was only that it was too lowly tuned to ever be anything more than a disengage.
Hitting briefly at the attack speed of most DPS, as to again be able to double-weave oGCDs during the period for which we'd bank oGCDs, didn't suddenly make Monks not a DPS. It just allowed us to double-weave while, admittedly, forcing us to swap over to an alternate rotation that required further considerations of sync. Personally, I preferred the speed variance it allowed, bouncing between a 1.82s GCD and 2.15 GCD with each synced perfectly to both Twin and DK, albeit via different rotational strings. The desync having no great solution in perfect uptime at particular Skill Speeds, moreover, was the exact kind of thing a properly tuned SSS could have solved.