Monk Needs a Complete Rework

[reyre]

Sometimes I wonder if a lot of support skills would be better served if TP were, well, still a resource (or MP a resource on non-casters and made more diversely a one on classes that already use it). At that point you could have Mantra, Brotherhood, and a couple forms of burst direct damage consume it, so you aren't effectively "taxed" just for having access to Mantra/Brotherhood, but instead in proportion to their use.

...I'd still revise Brotherhood to just increase all skills' potency by 5%, though, instead of letting it lock us into physical comps.

I think that a lot of factors made MNK skills redundant. If TP still existed, as you said, it would be an interesting way to use other skills SsS comes to mind, even anatman.
I do recall that fights like Avatar were almost a race against TP (that and, of course the, abuse of fracture+ToD+Demo) so it actually makes sense that chakra (with TP in mind) works the way it does.

In fact This makes me wonder about SkS as a whole, at least in the melee side. Does any melee actually uses SkS melds or pieces? I know NIN and SAM have their own baked-in SkS increase in their rotations and DRG kind of cant have high SkS because of the jumps (and honestly it doesnt even need SkS). So they dont really use pieces with SkS and then there is MNK that avoids SkS like the plague...So why is this even there? I am guessing is to have options, but it feels kind of pointles. Maybe i am focusing a bit too much on raiding and there are other uses for SkS outside raids.

Its almost a DNC situation, as in the class that benefits the most from having dance partner is MNK (no, not DMG wise) because extra crit reduces RNG. Following that line of thought while most classes benefit from not having TP, MNK is the one that, kind of, suffers from the lack of it.

I, however, would just kill the extra effect of brotherhood, that 30% chakra generation RNG feels wrong.