My critique on the Monk thus Far:
The armor and weapons are lack luster and aesthetically are foreign and alien to such a martial esque themed class.
Form Shift is nice in that the ability allows the MNK to open a fight up with Dragon Kick and apply the debuff or stay in a certain position due to movement restriction and forgo using a certain stance's abilities.
Meditation is not intuitive for the MNK and is a niche ability used before a fight or in periods of downtime when the monk is unable to DPS. I don’t understand why Meditation is 5 gcds instead of just 1 ability on a 12.5 second cooldown that can be affected by Grease Lighting to reduce the cooldown's time, or simply have Chakra’s apply passively through the change of stances. Seeing as Meditation takes up a GCD using the ability in between dpsing will simply kill the MNKs overall DPS.
Forbidden Chakra is a rather lackluster animation but the potency is decent for having no Grease Lighting at the beginning of a fight or in-between periods of downtime. The animation is simple to say the least.
Elixir Field, a new AOE, groovy. Looks flashy too.Â
Purification falls under the limitations of Meditation and will only be used if and when Invigorate is down or the MNK needs TP now and has no options but to use Meditation 5 times.
Tornado Kick will obviously be used when the player knows a phase is coming up were their Grease Lighting stacks will drop anyway, granted I haven’t been able to test yet if Tornado Kick will boost the DPS of the MNK if weaved into the dps rotation. By far the coolest MNK ability to date.
MNK overall is still a great class and will do well in endgame, but really falls short in the aesthetics and oomph of something that fights with its entire body.
The armor and weapons are lack luster and aesthetically are foreign and alien to such a martial esque themed class.
Form Shift is nice in that the ability allows the MNK to open a fight up with Dragon Kick and apply the debuff or stay in a certain position due to movement restriction and forgo using a certain stance's abilities.
Meditation is not intuitive for the MNK and is a niche ability used before a fight or in periods of downtime when the monk is unable to DPS. I don’t understand why Meditation is 5 gcds instead of just 1 ability on a 12.5 second cooldown that can be affected by Grease Lighting to reduce the cooldown's time, or simply have Chakra’s apply passively through the change of stances. Seeing as Meditation takes up a GCD using the ability in between dpsing will simply kill the MNKs overall DPS.
Forbidden Chakra is a rather lackluster animation but the potency is decent for having no Grease Lighting at the beginning of a fight or in-between periods of downtime. The animation is simple to say the least.
Elixir Field, a new AOE, groovy. Looks flashy too.Â
Purification falls under the limitations of Meditation and will only be used if and when Invigorate is down or the MNK needs TP now and has no options but to use Meditation 5 times.
Tornado Kick will obviously be used when the player knows a phase is coming up were their Grease Lighting stacks will drop anyway, granted I haven’t been able to test yet if Tornado Kick will boost the DPS of the MNK if weaved into the dps rotation. By far the coolest MNK ability to date.
MNK overall is still a great class and will do well in endgame, but really falls short in the aesthetics and oomph of something that fights with its entire body.
