New patch and still no positionals back on MNK!

[Navnav]

I am not gonna come off as a douche this time, but I really do not believe they will ever come back. After playing monk for some time now and getting the rotation down, you lot are right in that it is very easy, once you just memorise the random af opener, however after that it is easily manageable.
Though I don't think positionals are the answer here. For starters I think they could do something with RoW, by making it a 25% reduction in recast times for weapon skills. Just to give monk some much needed oomf. They could also make SSS an oGCD that increases next blitz by 30% but with a short duration buff, so you have to use it in your busy period.
They could also change up chakras a bit too by making the two positionals you do have guarentee a chakra, just so that you get more oGCDs, along with Howling Fist as a standard AoE oGCD if elixer field must be a blitz.

[WHITEOUT_93]

Why complain about positionals when we literally have useless abilities? Screw the positionals give me a reason to use Anatman. Make SSS, and RoW feel better to use. Fix Monks kit first. Positionals aren’t that important.

[ssunny2008]

Why complain about positionals when we literally have useless abilities? Screw the positionals give me a reason to use Anatman. Make SSS, and RoW feel better to use. Fix Monks kit first. Positionals aren’t that important.

- Anatman can be used in transition-phases like you´ve in the 2nd EX primal. It´ll just keep TS up, but it´s still a little damage increase.
- SSS is a great disengage and finisher-move.
- RoW is just a dumb side-effect buff yeah, but still a buff. Imo it´s nothing but a oGCD you hold on cooldown as you do with so many other things before (TK, EF, ST)

Having unique skills is not an issue, it actually brings some variety and skill ceiling. It´s the same with positionals... you can grow with them and being a class with tons of mobility is fun.

[Ransu]

- SSS is a great disengage and finisher-move.

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SSS is worthless. If it was an ability instead of a weaponskill I'd agree with you, but as it stands, being locked to the GCD makes it a worthless disengage when all the other melee's have real disengages that are oGCD's and backstep. A minor speed boost and a half okish potency on a move thats on the GCD is not what I would call great.

Also, as far as positionals go, they are not coming back so get used to that. Lack of positionals isn't the problem with monk anyways. Bringing back positionals isn't going to fix the clunky mechanics of blitz and the awkward burst windows being intentionally designed to be outside of the raids burst window forcing an even longer blitz phase by doing double phoenix to line up with raid burst windows. They need to fix the blitz mechanics first and do something about perfect balance before even considering something as pointless as positionals.

[ssunny2008]

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SSS is worthless. If it was an ability instead of a weaponskill I'd agree with you, but as it stands, being locked to the GCD makes it a worthless disengage when all the other melee's have real disengages that are oGCD's and backstep. A minor speed boost and a half okish potency on a move thats on the GCD is not what I would call great.

No it´s not and it just shows that you´ve no clue about "maximize your output".

[Ransu]

No it´s not and it just shows that you´ve no clue about "maximize your output".

Thunderclap is literally a better skill for disengaging and immediately re-engaging. Why would I wait for a GCD and a dps loss from SSS?

[wereotter]

They were never going to make major changes to jobs in the normal raid patch, we will have to wait until the savage raid before they make changes like that.

This isn't entirely correct. In fact this is the first x.01 patch since at least ARR (since ARR didn't have a 2.01 patch) wherein there were zero job adjustments. You could argue how major the adjustments were, but they did pull some jobs up from launching in a bad state into something viable. And given the state of the forums, very few players appear to be satisfied with the state in which monk launched. So it's fair to have anticipated some adjustments here, as well as potency changes for jobs like dancer and summoner that are underperforming in their roles.

hahahahahahahahahahahaa *breathes in* hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

SSS is worthless. If it was an ability instead of a weaponskill I'd agree with you, but as it stands, being locked to the GCD makes it a worthless disengage when all the other melee's have real disengages that are oGCD's and backstep. A minor speed boost and a half okish potency on a move thats on the GCD is not what I would call great.

Six Sided Star is decent enough to use before you limit break since the windup animation for the attack is longer than 5 seconds. But I do agree that it's a largely useless skill.

[Noraiga]

If positionals doesn't come back then i just hope they add more mech and some upgrade animation on True Strike and Snap punch.
EDIT: Even if MNK is kind of broken right now : p ( I'm stuck doing positionals anyway ).

[Mikey_R]

They were never going to make major changes to jobs in the normal raid patch, we will have to wait until the savage raid before they make changes like that.

[Ransu]

All of those situations you're going to be sitting on a GCD nine times out of 10. SSS is useless and requires practically perfect timing to get any use out of a minor speed boost and its potency is not worth sitting on a GCD to use it.

You're in the extreme minority in thinking its unique or even good.