Monk Needs a Complete Rework

[Shurrikhan]

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[OIP] Again, I'm not saying OIP was some great skill concept, just that they never even tried to make anything of it, which is a little disheartening for any mechanic.

[Flash] I could of sworn there was an r/ffxiv post that went into detail on Blind, noting that it actually worked on most bosses, but was just less noticeable because Blind would reduce Accuracy stat, which bosses had a higher value of. Though, of course, what little chance you increased of a boss missing was worth a whole lot more than your average mob. So, its chance reduction was less noticeable, but each miss caused was worth way more. In general, it was probably worth about as much as Featherfoot cross-classed, or a bit more depending on (anti)synergies with your other forms of protection via or against RNG (Awareness, Dark Dance, Dark Arts - Dark Dance, Featherfoot, Raw Intuition, Shelltron, Bulwark, etc.).

[RoH] I'm glad the STR debuff was removed from PLD and the INT debuff from MNK, but not because either was useless. They were effectively 10% physical or magical damage down, respectively. It was based on dull maintenance, but over a whole fight they were no trivial utility.

[SSw] Shield Swipe, likewise, probably would have been just fine, and definitely fitting for PLD, if it had just not effective accelerated the auto-attack that would follow the special it cancelled and if Shield Swipe was oGCD without such a long cooldown. It didn't inflict a DR category that'd be useful to anyone else, but allowed the PLD to ignore certain movement requirements by, well, removing the need to move ('silencing' the incoming physical AoE or preventing the next 5 seconds' of tankbusters). It, too, was lackluster, not fundamentally flawed.

[TK] I'd rather keep it, but that'd require that the mechanic it's based on (GL) isn't a mere pretense (i.e. a once-per-instance prelude to normal combat). Even reworking GL, I'd rather TK play a part in that rather than being yet another skill aborted as if that were all that could be done... after having been intentionally gutted.