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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7163424" data-attributes="member: 6775031">It makes sense if you assume that resources are relatively well-balanced. If the monk can't stun it, then they don't spend the ki for that, and they're no worse off because they'll get to stun something else later or they can flurry an extra time.In practice, and specifically in this case, those assumptions don't hold. If the monk can't stun this Roc now, then they have no way of spending all of their ki before the next rest, so those resources end up being wasted. Likewise, because they're only fighting one monster instead of an entire group, inflicting some sort of status condition is significantly more beneficial than just about anything else they could possibly be doing.It's not quite to the point of Palladium, where they obviously didn't care about balance, but 5E just isn't designed with balance as any sort of priority.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 7163424, member: 6775031"] It makes sense if you assume that resources are relatively well-balanced. If the monk can't stun it, then they don't spend the ki for that, and they're no worse off because they'll get to stun something else later or they can flurry an extra time. In practice, and specifically in this case, those assumptions don't hold. If the monk can't stun this Roc now, then they have no way of spending all of their ki before the next rest, so those resources end up being wasted. Likewise, because they're only fighting one monster instead of an entire group, inflicting some sort of status condition is [I]significantly[/I] more beneficial than just about anything else they could possibly be doing. It's not quite to the point of Palladium, where they obviously didn't care about balance, but 5E just isn't designed with balance as any sort of priority. [/QUOTE]

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