Quote Originally Posted by IruruCece View Post
Thunderclap was not a good replacement for shoulder tackle.

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Six Sided Star should also go the heck away. Replace it with an OGCD we weave in when available/during burst phases. Monk does not need a button with an extremely narrow use-case, no job does. Anyone who would miss it will feed well in 7.0 when SE inevitably recycles the animation from it as an upgrade to Celestial Revolution or something.
No, please, to both of these.

Thunderclap is a fine replacement for Shoulder Tackle. We merely should have gotten back its apm elsewhere. (Technically, we did, via increased Chakra intake, but that still leaves necessary compensation for the apm lost from removing Elixir Field and the oGCD that carries the name and animation of what was TK.)

Six-sided Star is fine as a finisher and disengage. I'd rather have a situational tool than empty apm. That's not to say that I dislike APM; I'm just not willing to lose a single tool for it, especially when increased apm does not oblige the removal of decent tools. And, yes, SSS is a decent tool -- though no better than "decent" -- and certainly has more reason to exist as a given button than does Meditation or, especially, Form Shift.