Monk Needs a Complete Rework

[Shurrikhan]

As far as free damage, I'm counting any damage you're not directly responsible for creating.

And I'm merely counting it as the net gain of optimizing around such.

it takes at least a 6 minute encounter for this to be a DPS increase over perfoming blitzes in such a way as to get to phantom rush as soon as possible

Which, again, does not seem necessarily to be a problem.

they also have, in the past, changed skills when we create a rotation they don't want us doing, which is exactly what happened with the tornado kick, wind tackle rotation from stormblood.

I'm not saying they won't have a vision in mind for how the class "ought" to work. I'm just saying it shouldn't matter one bit to us unless it's also optimal. When they tune the kit such that PR is more consistently worth holding, then our rotations change for a greater portion of content accordingly. Until then, it won't. It's not worth thinking about whether it's intended except in that it will be balanced to oblige certain --and only certain-- behaviors, which may or may not prioritize maximizing raid windows (if/when that has less relative potency dealt over the given fight than maximizing our own raw potency).