Storm, Earth, and Fire suggestion

Classes Monk
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Current Talents/Abilities

Storm, Earth, and Fire - Active - 2 charges - 1.5 min cooldown
Split into 3 elemental spirits for 15 sec, each spirit dealing 40% of normal damage and healing.

You directly control the Storm spirit, while Earth and Fire spirits mimic your attacks on nearby enemies.

While active, casting Storm, Earth, and Fire again will cause the spirits to fixate on your target.

Ordered Elements - Passive
During Storm, Earth, and Fire, Rising Sun Kick reduces Chi costs by 1 for 7 sec and Blackout Kick reduces the cooldown of affected abilities by an additional 1 sec.

Activating Storm, Earth, and Fire resets the remaining cooldown of Rising Sun Kick and grants 2 Chi.

Drinking Horn cover - Passive
The duration of Storm, Earth, and Fire is extended by 0.25 sec for every Chi you spend.

Spiritual Focus - Passive
Every 2 Chi you spend reduces the cooldown of Storm, Earth, and Fire by 0.5 sec.

Suggested Talents/Abilities

Storm, Earth, and Fire - Passive (replace current version)
Rising Sun Kick summons a Storm, Earth, or Fire spirit near a different nearby enemy which lingers for up to 9 seconds and mimic your attacks on nearby enemies. The spirits mimic 80% of your damage, divided evenly among them, and disperse prematurely if there are no additional enemies nearby. Limit 2.

Rising Sun Kick’s damage is increased by 10% for each spirit that is not present.

Ordered Elements - Passive (replaces current version)
Storm, Earth, and Fire can now have up to 3 spirits active simultaneously, and summoning the 3rd spirit will refresh the duration of all your active Storm, Earth, and Fire spirits.

Rising Sun Kick’s cooldown is reduced by 1 second for each spirit that is not present.

Martial Transcendence - Passive (replaces Drinking Horn Cover)
One Storm, Earth, or Fire spirit will be summoned the moment you enter combat and will linger until the moment you leave combat.

This semi-permanent spirit will also attack your current target when no other enemies are nearby, but it only mimics 20% of your damage when doing so.

Spiritual Focus - Passive (replaces current version)
Storm, Earth, and Fire spirits each mimic an additional 20% of your damage.

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SEF is a damage cooldown. It exists for burst windows in raid encounters and big dungeon pulls. What you’re suggesting -converting it to a passive effect - defeats the entire purpose and would just result in tuning nerfs to the rest of our kit and an excessive reliance on pet AI.

And we’d be left without a damage cooldown for burst windows when we’re already among the bottom performers in raids and keys.

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Good analysis. I appreciate the thoughtful feedback.

I agree with the notion that DPS classes should have access to a big DPS cooldown every 1 minute, but I also think that there is value in providing an option to instead increase the DPS throughput outside of cooldown usage.

Besides, Windwalker already has Xuen. I really don’t think the kit should be split and designed around multiple major cooldowns (Survival does this more elegantly by having all of its major cooldowns below the final talent gate, so it’s a “pick and choose” scenario while options above the final talent gate are all still incredibly powerful).

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This is a worst version than the original, might as well just return SEF to original.

And xuen should be a buff on the monk, instead of AI :poop:

Really I feel tigereye making a return would also be the best too.