MNK Rework is a great start

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I wholeheartedly agree with the current changes to MNK as of 5.4. For me personally it was difficult to keep track of positionals, stacks, and chakras all at the same time and while an overhaul of my hotbar was sorely needed to adjust to the changes prepatch it was never a perfect fit.

I think a good direction for them to start reworking chakra is to look towards maybe designing the system similarly to NIN's Ninki gauge. I think this would make chakra more versatile depending if you're fighting a boss or multiple enemies.

for example if your gauge is full you can launch either the single or line AoE skills twice and possibly get a buff that clears positional requirements for 5 seconds per use of those skills (up to 10 seconds.) Thus perhaps also cleaning up the awkward usage of Riddle of Earth if they were to remove it. I would fancy to call this temporary buff "Chakra Flare" and maybe place that trait somewhere in the level 60-70s range to keep the job consistently 'growing' IF the decision was to remove the Riddles entirely.

I think this way it paves the way to ,like NIN's Ninki Gauge, see more skills for MNK to be a more consistent DPS instead of relying on burst so often with little time to dump all it like how the class was before 5.4.

On a more jokingly, wilder theory take the same concept I stated above and just have the choice of granting skills like 'Snap Punch' extra abilities like bleed or restore HP while taking only 20% of the overall gauge.