I'll take my own knack at this and borrow your thread to avoid clogging up the other like three monk threads with proposed rework theory crafting. And to show good faith effort I'll do my best to keep as many new changes and ideas intact as possible and, instead, make them better without discarding them.
Step One: Reversions.
Riddle of earth should just go back to how it was. 20% DR is fine, but give it the positional negation back. It's not necessary but RoE just feels awkward now, it's not a very viable buff for what it's purpose seems to be.
Positionals: give them back. People were attached to them, and between riddle of earth and true north you can attain a pretty much perpetual positional negation if you care to.
Step Two: Blitz
Masterful Blitz: We should constantly accrue Beast Chakra as we fight, much like we do regular chakra. Masterful Blitz should be the button we press to cash it in like we do now. Perfect Balance literally should not be part of this equation. There's just no reason for it to.
Masterful Blitz, and all of our blitzes, should also be OGCD with distinct cooldowns if blitz spam is too much of a worry, so if the big strong ones are on cooldown then you'll default to using celestial revolution. This means there's never time we're not doing something and hitting that blitz button.
Furthermore if we have a full three beast chakra, getting a fourth should simply replace the third, wiping the first from the list. So something like this:
R>C>O> and if you hit bootshine again or something that first raptor chakra gets ousted and you wind up with C>O>R> this means our beast chakra is constantly flowing and even if you're full, or if you make a mistake, you're not locked in.
Also while I'm at it, locking blitzes down to simply either one of the same chakra, or one of each chakra is really boring. Especially since you guys replace two of our blitzes (one of them being tornado kick) with just better versions later on. Why not make it a bit more elaborate. You can get a lot of mileage out of the basic R,C,O combo format and could even make later blitzes combo off of other blitzes.
Perfect Balance: Is fine just doing what it does, letting you freestyle or get a head start on whatever skills you want or need from any position. It didn't need the weird position EW gives it.
Other Changes:
Six Sided Star: turn it into a regular single target OGCD ability like Tornado kick used to be. Just make it Tornado Kick by a different name.
Anatman: Give it the DR From Fists of the Earth. 10% or 20% it doesn't matter. Furthermore make it freeze ALL of your monk timers; your leaden fists, your disciplined fists, your form timer, make it keep your beast chakra from decaying. Also make it charge one a chakra per second because why not, it locks you into place and it's something people will literally only use between phases or whatever. Let monks charge their Ki and have their goku fantasy. Also let us thunder clap out of it.

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