Monks need a projectile!

[Pyitoechito]

Under no circumstances should you be using Enlightenment in a disconnect situation lol, a considerable portion of damage contribution comes from Forbidden Chakra and wasting it on Enlightenment is always a DPS loss in a single target scenario. (Also it's only like 10 yalms so if you're close enough to use Enlightenment then you can probably greed TFC.) No disconnect in the game is long nor specific enough to warrant wasting 5 whole Chakras over Enlightenment.

Yeah, I honestly can't think of one either. The only thing I can think of (which never happens) would be a significant disengage followed by boss transition where it becomes untargetable for a long enough time, but at that point TFC should have been used beforehand anyway (and that situation never happens).

Or.... if it's meant to be a movement tool, they could take the damage potency off of the skill, maybe let it have a stun effect so that it mirrors the spine shatter name, and increase the potency of other skills to compensate.

Dragoon already has a no-potency backflip, and most gap-closers deal damage and have charges nowadays.

Another (albeit dumb) idea, what if LNC/DRG had slightly wider attack range for all their melee skills simply by virtue of the fact that a lance/spear is a long weapon?