Monk Needs a Complete Rework

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This is also why I feel like the goal of the upcoming rework is just completely missing the mark. They've said that the goal is to eliminate the stress of upkeeping Greased Lightning... but there's no issue with that now. Monk has achieved parity with Black Mage and Dragoon in 5.3 by letting you upkeep it with one button. The problems we have lie elsewhere in the kit. Monk needs an actual recovery skill for Greased Lightning because right now it doesn't have one, Anatman is terrible for building more than one stack and useless otherwise, and they accidentally turned Perfect Balance into a Meikyo Shisui like damage cooldown with Leaden Bootshine. There's too many skills/traits that just do nothing at all like Tornado Kick and the Fist Stances. The lack of new skills we actually get to use rotationally has made people frustrated for two expansions now. Meanwhile there's things the players actively hate like RNG Chakra which should have been fixed but haven't. Greased Lightning is only tangentially related to that. The only reason I can feel somewhat good about the upcoming rework is that turning Greased Lightning into a trait forces them to change most of the things that are actually problems so they might end up fixing some of these problems on accident. It also prevents them from making at least one of the stupid mistakes they made multiple times from happening again by making new skills to refresh Greased Lightning impossible.

This is the single most important thing to be said about monk in 7 years. Monk IS being changed, and we don't know what to. However, I think that we can all agree what we have now....sucks. The job could be SOOO much more, and I simply don't understand some of the comments on this thread that consider monk is perfect. You're lying to yourself if you think it's perfect, and your only hurting others by claiming this.

SE is going to change monk, it's coming, weather we like it or not. We mustn't get caught up in the idea monk works for every situation, because it does not. This quote sums up EVERYTHING I have been pushing for, and truer words have never been spoken about monk.

Thank you SpeckledBurd. This is one of the most heated, longest, most posts, single topic threads I have ever seen. And it keeps going due to the fact gamers/players want monk to change and for the better. We would not be posting this if we didn't feel so strongly about it.