Monk Needs a Complete Rework

[Irisdina_Wiloh]

Solid post Sora, I think you're correct that the Chakra change should happen this expac, if they're able to solve small things like Shoha for Samurai, why can't we have something as simple as 5 extra stacks of Chakra being allowed now? Even PB becoming a fixed amount of GCDs feels like something they could enable now with little work.

Overall I think i'm in agreement with your points. I will admit of the few times I actually bothered doing savage fights this tier it did feel a bit headache inducing trying to time RoE correctly and not losing out on positional, last tier felt easier to me in that regard however, I'd be curious to know what you'd suggest as some sort of buffer skill? At this point, I'm sort of against them making drastic changes to the GCD flow rotation of Monk, I'm happy with it although i'd certainly like double true to just be the way we play now, trying to do that rotation on higher ping can be hard. Would you be in favour of something like ToD or Fracture returning to give you a gcd to play with if and maybe negate a potential lost positional?

[Calanque]

Wow, these 40 pages were quite an enjoyable read. I would like to make a contribution.

I'd be curious to know what you'd suggest as some sort of buffer skill?

Personally, I would transform TK into the following buffer skill:

Tornado Kick: Weaponskill (Cooldown: 15s)
If the last three weaponskills used had the same directional requirement, executes Light Kick.
Otherwise, executes Shadow Kick.
If any of the last three weaponskills used had no directional requirement, this action is unusable.

Light Kick: Delivers an attack with a potency of 300

Shadow Kick: Delivers an attack with a potency of 100.
Additional Effect: Damage over time
Potency: 30
Duration: 36s

If the 15s cooldown is affected by Greased Lightning and SkS, it should be usable every odd rotation. I think it ties nicely between the Coeurl and Opo-opo skills. It also fits slightly better with the lore of the 50-60 job quests. Obviously, the potencies would have to be tweaked. And something would have be nerfed in return.