Well they fixed whirlwind for that reason specificly, so i doubt they would deem it ok to use the dragon ae to do the same thing.  Infact i wouldnt be suprised if it was changed rather soon to match whirlwind.  Then you have no method for fast jin gain, and aspect of the spirit dragon is back to being a useless skill.

If you have 20 jin and use the inital 8 to invis, you lose 1 jin/ 30 sec. so if invis lasts longer then 2 min (reasonable assumption) you can no longer relly on a second invis.  Not only that but once they fix dragon sweeps the tail (and yes it needs a fix to prevent monks from filling jin with no real penalty, same reason whirlwind was fixed) youd have a skill thats back to being better off as an end skill. 

30 sec of invis (actually geting 30-45 with end regen now) with a short 9-12 sec cool down to get another 30-45 sec of invis isnt bad, infact its quite reasonable.  As long as you FD at 10% end, you wont agro 99% of the time, and  poping it again once your 100% end takes a whoping 9-12sec wait.

I understand the desire for a longer duration invis, dont get me wrong, even the levitate portion.  I used to use the levi portion to go from NT to the SW swamps/APW area faster, but pick and choose your battles i guess.  Ill give up my levi and potentially longer duration invis for a short duration reliable invis thats quickly reuseable without using a skill thats going to be fixed.

If that was the reason Whirlwind was adjusted, it's not a valid fix. Requiring you to be in range of mobs would have been more valid, as the "solution" they chose, limits what you can in combat (seeing as you need to use the more expensive Dragon AE now to initiate combat).

Anyway... I don't particularly need either invis or levitation. They might come in handy on corpse runs, but with the Producer's Letter, who knows whether corpse runs will soon be a thing of the past or not, anyway? Then invis would basically just be a tool to get you to a group that's inside an area where you cannot be called. Very limited utility at best, especially considering it will last 30 seconds...

 ;Dyea i remember when i  was in a pug doin tsang for first time we went down one hall way fought like heck to get to that point.
 me and a shaman 'cleric' ranger n' warrior and i said ok guys there gonna repop soon i say take out last one by window then we can jump out window!

i get a reply of oh yea sure we will mr safe fall
heh well i honestly thought it was a good idea at the time and really didnt take in consideration of the other classes.

kinda glad some one spoke up tho 

Any word yet on when the new game update might be going live Quinn?  Am beyond excited to try the new changes, and sounds like there's been plenty of time to playtest them on Test.  Very anxious to see these patched into Live.

Well new test server patch notes are out there, still no promised and well overdue monk love. So when are we getting the love?

You must have missed the last few patch notes.  We have been given a substantial amount of alterations on the test server.

See earlier posts in this thread by Quinn the Mighty and Fujitsu for specifics.

have indeed had Kiviks bug happen while playing on test.

The run speed issue I was able to confirm as well and set if off to bug land.

~QTM