MONK is to confusing / annoying of a class now

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And yet MNK still has skills that can be cut entirely, like SSS and Anatman, I'd argue Riddle of Earth too, with little to no impact on MNK's gameplay.

SSS is still great for a disengage...better then tornado kick lol. I have actually started using it more in the Endwalker dungeons as the bosses have a ton of AOE mechanics (looking at your magus sisters, calm down). SSS is still relevant...but relegated to a disengage...much like Egress and ingress, DRG backflip, SAM backstep. The only thing I wish SSS had on it would be an enhanced effect. Like Enpi or Harpe. Which the effect is still sprint....so can't win them all.

OMG I use Anatman all the time now....it STILL has use. It keeps your forms stable and stops twin buff. If I don't have to use Twin coming back into range that is a huge benefit, and allows me the ability to refresh demo or leaden. If I have both of those already? Thunderclap with Boot, True, Snap. Anatman has saved my timesr tons of times (more so in Endwalker dungeons) then it ever has. It used to be a skill to keep your GL and boost charka. Now that it's just to keep your forms and twin timers from ticking down...I love it. Keeps me ready to go when I thunderclap back in.

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but also they could just give us the lore-friendly 7 chakras and that'd be enough.

And yes, I 100% agree on 7 chakras instead of 5 as the cap we can hold. I'm hard pressed to think of any other job that has its resource be at exactly 100% before you can use the skill tied to it. Or if they don't want to redesign the job gauge, even just reducing the number of chakras needed to use forbidden charka from 5 to 4 (even if you have to take a small potency hit) would solve the problem.

For what little that it is worth, I have been to work on to create a extensive re-design concept for the Chakra resource, the purposes of Chakra, and how the Monk spends Chakra, as well as on what that Chakra is spent... I can share the quick summary, at least.

(still in development)redesign concept for Monks' Chakra resource(just the summary)

The skeleton and backbone of my not-yet-complete redesign concept, takes the 14 Chakra of light and darkness as its base, 7 chakra for each side, to be a 14-point solid-resource dual resource pool, with the 7 Chakra of light as a fast build-up resource that the Monk spends often, with full-independent generation; and the 7 Chakra of Darkness as a slower build-up resource, that the Monk uses less often, albeit to execute more powerful actions; that is half independent in its generation, and half dependent on the Chakra of Light, for its generation...

Also, disclaimer: I came up with that before the Reaper reveal, and before we found out how Reaper resources function. The similarity, other than that one is sold-resource and one is gauges, is a total coincidence... I did not copy the Reaper to come up with that idea.