Quote Originally Posted by Router View Post
Forgive me, for I am not a MNK main, but is it not true that when you have an orb you need to spend that orb? It's not like you can stockpile additional orbs i.e. like with NIN kunai, and MNK certainly doesn't have the ability to occasionally delay or rearrange positional GCDs like SAM can in filler. It's a rigid 1-2-3. Of course MNK even minute burst is mostly just opo spam with few positionals, but that's hardly the entire job.
The chakra burst is far more open, compared to samurais 55 cd ability. For example if you have no chakras but know that coming up is a bunch of cleaves that make it impossible to do positionals, you could do your positional heavy chakra combo then during the cleave phase do your chakra combo that has no positionals. Compared to SAM where no matter what you have to do a flank or rear it's far more open, if true north didn't exist monk would be the easiest job to do positionals on.