Monk Rant

[Shurrikhan]

Small tangent, but it always feels funny to me that there's general notice that small twists from intended play always get pruned yet no one seemingly remembers that until Stormblood we could run double-Bootshine, double-TrueStrike rotations (staggered away from ToD/Frac strings), and even in Shadowbringers we could run double-True. (There just wasn't enough reward for it to be nearly worth the stat inefficiencies in Endwalker, sadly, at only 20 potency over Twin Snakes at the time.)

(Yes, those rotations meant dropping DK before DK and Twin before reapplying Twin, but it would take an AA and multiple oGCDs to miss those buffs for that to be a net loss.)

RIP meaningful SkS tier choice (even if, yes, it was generally slightly suboptimal despite the net gain in potency per GCD rotationally). The Fury system and double-Reply per 3 minutes, especially, makes getting an extra 2 GCDs per minute less attractive even where total accessible SkS would otherwise allow it if only because it's then so excessive for anything else now that we can't fit in a better buffed to buffer ratio from said SkS.