Quote Originally Posted by SpeckledBurd View Post
It shouldn't as long as Chakra is reubilt to not be connected to crit. At that point it just means Monk will crit 5% more than other jobs. What made previous Bard so attached to the Dragoon on top of Piercing was Battle Litany improving the proc rate of River of Blood in HW and Repertoire in SB. Monk having Internal Release in HW didn't make that dependence, it was having an additional resource that was contingent upon landing crits, as long as that interaction is gone a crit buff to the self is independent to the rest of the party.
I agree with this as if we are to no longer have Internal Release and it's never coming back, then we need have something that isn't dependent on the whole party comp being specific. The RNG would be great IF the job complimented it fairly. We should not have to use food and gear specific stats/melds for us to get MEH chakra gains. Internal Release was so nice that I could pop it when I needed chackra fast before my riddle of fire came up. Monk needs passive crit chance buff or a skill to increase it in larger doses.

I have been in a Puppets Bunker run where I was lucky enough to be in a party of ALL monks. WOW...the comp is soooo amazing, damn near broken as we had a brotherhood/ROF buff running nearly constantly. So many forbidden's all over the place! But the next time I ran it...all casters. Brotherhood was so gimp I virtually got 2 chackra with each round of brotherhood. This can't be intentional to have 2 very huge differences in damage just with party comp.