Monk Needs a Complete Rework

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Or, in this case, freeing up Meditation would allow for TFC to be spent at any amount of Chakra, thus clearing up our bankability issues; we need only spend whatever Chakra we have before the boss jumps away.

I can't tell if your teasing the idea of having to spend chackra before a jump. Or being serious and not requiring to spend chackra before a jump. The whole disengagement argument for monk bores me as I hate that we are supposed to be the only disengage job in the game. I want to speculate and say monk disengaging and blowing all the GL it has as a last ditch effort was not the desired gameplay for the job despite who lack luster the one hit of TK truly is and if you indeed have 5 chackra before a jump. This argument is STILL pushing monk in a rigid style of game play focus on blowing your chackra and stacks before the jump. Even with anatman this isn't ideal, but that's just me.

Didn't know what your thoughts are here.

[Shurrikhan]

I can't tell if your teasing the idea of having to spend chackra before a jump. Or being serious and not requiring to spend chackra before a jump.

I meant no more than I said. The only Chakra-related interaction left would be that you spend it before the jump. That requires... spending it before the jump, just as one would with Repertoire, direct-damage CDs normally banked for damage-window CDs you'd otherwise end up holding too long, etc.

That means all the other BS is gone, i.e.

Previously, we literally had no good fit between boss jumps and Chakra; it was purely a matter of luck.
4 Chakra and boss jumps? Well, guess I'm getting only 74 downtime potency this jump (4 Chakra effectively wasted).
Chakra jumped right after using a newly available TFC? Cool. That's a an extra 296 potency I just net myself, through no skill of my own.

So, again, that BS RNG-based interaction with fight mechanics/timings is now gone. We're left instead with, say, the much fairer interactions of a Bard -- pop Perfect Pitch before the boss jumps and chances are you'll have another before the boss returns.

At that point, Monk would not be unique in regard to disengage-related considerations; Dancer, Ninja, BLM, Samurai (though Shoha would actually be worse than TFC now), and any job with high amount of oGCD banking potential would have it just as bad (or, involve just as much gameplay).

At "worst", like Samurai, Monk would just have something to do during the boss-jump while everyone else just idles (Anatman, in place of Meditate).

:: You already know my stance on Tornado Kick and Anatman, but that's rather out of scope for what was purely an de-clunk-ifying improvement to Meditation itself. If you want me to restate them, I will, but I don't see how I've been slyly ambiguous or disingenuous in wanting this simple intuitive improvement to Meditation/Chakra/TFC.