Monk Needs a Complete Rework

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To be fair, most expect to see only skills that provide increased damage in every situation, despite, given balance, those same skills typically being the most dull additions.

The only problem with SSS was that it was undertuned such that it could only ever be a disengage skill, and was inflexible even in that regard, rather than finding conditional uses as part of syncing rotation or CD burst.

Still doesn't explain the fact that it is off most mnk's hotbars. It is a capstone and VERYYYY niche now that we basically NEVER drop stacks now with form shift being a one off button for GL refresh. Save from some fight cut scene or exposition transition that takes longer then 18 sec. SSS much like TK and One Ilm Punch are part of the niche category for monk and NOBODY uses them. Try using these skills in Stone Sky Sea and see how far you get, and you can only use TK ONCE in Stone Sky Sea! I even tried using it for every BH/RoF window (fail). Using it with Perfect Balance after 2nd BH/RoF window (fail). I can only use TK at the last 1 -.5%

SSS is only good if you have Forbidden, elixir, and shoulder tackle up to use right after using SSS while waiting for GCD. I have finished Stone Sky Sea with this strat, but it was very random due to chackra. 1 out of 4 attempts, could change that the more I buff my crit chance. Dunno the soft cap for crit chance, but the more I tack on doesn't seem to make a difference for monk since it's a double gated RNG. The Worst.

If monk is to disengage why would I use any of these skills if I have form shift the way it is now. Easy answer: SE mucked up and had no idea what we wanted, they should have fixed MNK coming into 5.0. Instead they gave us more of what we didn't want, niche abilities that see no use. I haven't had TK on my hotbar for the better part of 5 years, one ilm punch ( I used it maybe 3 times and chucked that garbage in the trash), and then SE just removed it. What took them so long to understand one ilm punch was trash from 2.0 to 5.0 is beyond my understanding.

This new rework has to push in a direction for monks to use GL as a resource vs. a timer/resource. That is why SAM and NIN work so well, and that their timers are "separate" from there resources. Nenki is static and gains normally seperate from huton, Kenkei is static and gains normally separate from shifu, jinpu. GL is dynamic , and is a resource AND a timer...this is fine for ARR monk, but for the monk we have where you have a GL spender this makes no sense.

Imagine NIN having to spend 40 secs on huton to use Bunshin or Dream within a Dream. Or SAM sacrifice shifu or jinpu to prefrom Midare Setsugekka or Kaiten. Well then you would feel like a Monk if you had to do all this. Stop trying to defend the whole "But monk is DEEEPPPP" mentality. It's 6ft deep imo and NEEDS resurrected with REAL changes.