Monk Needs a Complete Rework

[reyre]

Form Shift refreshing GL independent of current Form makes Monk's downtime less of a spammy mess and the Perfect Balance buff improves Monk's ability to recover from forced downtime or from getting killed, both of which are problems with the job at the moment.

Per your own admission boosting Monk's damage doesn't fix anything.

I never said it was a fix, i said as a better "band aid". Even more so since a more cohesive "fix" is coming down the line, so making any changes just to change them later doesnt seem that productive and while you may argue that any change is subject to futher changes, which is true, in this particular case it is not a very usefull "band aid" because is not trying to lessen some fundamental issue. As annoying as it may be Form shift or PB are not an issue, but skills like anatman, TK, SsS, Enlightment, Chakra/Meditation, Brotherhood, Leaden Fist and just RNG are issues. Since you cant fix them all now, you could just make it that BH affects everyone, that alone would go a long way (Ideally they will just remove the damm skill all together). But i digress.

Will it be a less "spammy" band aid? You will try and be in either coeurl or raptor, so less "spammy" by one button. Will it be that different? Even more so when you consider that you might need to use meditation so it might end up being equally as "spammy". It seems, at least to me, that MNK will be changing what button to spam, instead of FS it will be meditation, not that much of a difference to be honest, and even in dungeons it will be still very "spammy".

As for PB recast reduction, while i wont argue against the stacks-death recovery (which, again, to be fair is not how you should be using PB and the better you get at the game the less you will die) its very situational, what if you die after you used PB in your normal rotation?

In most cases having a short PB cast wont matter, unless of course is 20 seconds or so. So now any MNK has a very weird question to ask itself "should i save PB because i dont know if i will die or should i use it normally in the rotation?". As for the forced downtime, i dont think there are many fights that dont give you enough time to recover PB in its current state.

If we take E8s as an example the only big downtime is big enough that you have PB by the end of the Cut Scene, so having a short timer in that case will not help at all and you dont really lose stacks in the adds transition because for better or worse anatman works beautifully there. I havent done enough Copied factory to say this, but from my memory i never lost any GL stacks in the entire Raid. If there are any examples where this could be used for downtime i would love to hear them and even then i dont believe that it would be more than a handful at worst, making the reduced timer a VERY niche option to have which is the problem with current MNK, a bunch of VERY niche and redundant options and skills, that for the vast majority of the game you dont use at all.

Either way this whole argument is moot, they already said what they were changing. Hopefully it wont be JUST Form shift and Perfect balance but some other change as well but what is done is done, so honestly who cares? I can only wait and see.