Strike through is already in the game.  Mobs in APW use it. 

Basicly strikethrough ignores mitigation and hits for a set amount of dmg.  Granted in APW mobs with strikthrough also scale their dmg based on max mit but thats a different story.

Personally if it was up to me, to design a strike through buff for dragon monks.

Sundragons corona 1 (lvl40) --Grants the monk strikethrough. You will ignore the mobs mitigation and hit with the full force of a sun dragon.

As for the duration id have to see its parses and see if it should be 1 min on 5 min reuse, or a perm buff like diamond skin. 

Naturally id prefer a perm. buff like diamond skin that maybe adds 50% strikethrough at 40 and 75% strikethrough at 50.  Be something unique to dragon monks and for the most part would give us a niche as well as some dps respect.   the % would be the % chance for strikethrough to fire.  Aka 75% of hits would ignore mitigation at 50.   Id have to see some parses before id be okay with asking for 100%. 

Dragons dont get a 100% avoidance buff like drunken/harmonious so i think it would be justifiable to give them a strong dps buff like that. 




 

So the strikethough would basically be 'ignore X% of targets mitigation'.  So, where the Harmonious uses an attack to put a temporary mitigation debuff on the mob that all can use, the Dragon is buffed to ignore a larger % on any mob he attacks-a mob with 60% mit would only be say 40% against a dragon monk?

The more I think about it, a large mitigation strikethrough may be a bit too overpowered for something corona should deliver.  I'm personally leaning more towards a buff that makes our elemental secrets do more damage (or maybe just SoF, since it's our staple dps secret and the buff is "Sun Dragon's Corona.")

If our stances are going to be looked at, then let's reserve our major dps increase for Storm Dragon Stance.  If we could get a scaling similar to Drunken, that would solve a lot of our dps issues.  This is personally what I'd like to see

Level 15: 20% damage, 4% crit, 10% chance to proc lightning
Level 30: 28% damage, 6% crit, 15% chance to proc lightning
Level 50: 36% damage, 8% crit, 20% chance to proc lightning

If we could hope for something like this, then I'd be perfectly happy with a buff that increases secrets damage instead of something as powerful as what we're discussing.

Do you realise the increase in DPS Fujitsu
So, first, what do you mean by Strikethrough ?
A ) Is it a net  - X % to the mob's mitigation (mob has 40% mitigation, net reduction of 20% means the mob goes down to 20% mitigation)
or
B ) would it lower by X% the mob's mitigation ? ( lowering meaning the mob would go down to 32% as 20% of 40 = 8.)

Second, to show the increase in dps both would made here's the formula.
Lets keep the same numbers :
M = mitigation of the mob
S = Strike through value.
D = Base DPS
F = Final value of DPS
X = Percentage of increase in DPS

Since we're talking of percentages, we'll say a monk has a base 100 DPS, that's before the mob's mitigation.

So, when a monk hits a mob with 40% mitigation, his DPS is 60.
Formula :
F1 = D - (D * M/100)
F1 = 100 - (100 * 40/100) = 60
So, without strikethrough, a monk would have a base dps of 60 (that means actualy 60% of the dps he would make on a mob with 0% mitigation).

So now lets study option A.
We still take 20 Strikethrough. (so S = 20)
So, the final value of dps would be 80 (that is 80 % of the dps he would make on a mob with 0% mitigation)
Formula :
F2 = D - (D * (M-S)/100)
F2 = 100 - (100 * (40 - 20)/100) = 80

That means an actual increase in DPS of 33.33%
Formula :
We take F1 = 60 (Dps without Strikethrough) and F2 = 80 (Dps with Strikethrough)
X = (F2 - F1)/F1 * 100
X = (80 - 60)/60 * 100 = 33.33333 (going from 60 to 80 makes an actual increase of 33%)

Now lets take option B

With this option, a monk would have a base dps of 68
Formula : (F3 meaning the final DPS after mitigation of a monk with Strikethrough 20% calculated with option B)
F3 = D -(M - ((S/100)*M)
F3 = 100 - (40 - ((20/100)*40) = 68

That would mean an increase in DPS of 13.33333 dps

Formula :
We take F1 = 60 (Dps without Strikethrough) and F3 = 68 (Dps with Strikethrough)
X = (F3 - F1)/F1 * 100
X = (68 - 60)/60 * 100 = 13.33333 (going from 60 to 68 makes an actual increase of 13.33%)


So, in my very humble opinion, a buff that would add 13.33% raw dps on a mob with 40% mitigation (and we could get numbers from various zones, but 40% mitigation seems realistic for higher end stuff ?)
Give me actual numbers for mobs mitigation, especially for raid stuff, and i'll give you the raise in DPS.
13% is imho already way to much. That means 13% plus the actual dragon stance that adds like 30% no ? (meaning a global increase of 47% dps compared to a monk with no stance)

Imagine the imbalance with the other two paths ?

You mean Eagle claw 1 and 2 would stack for mitigation decrease purposes Are you sure the effect stacks or just the windows appear twice ?

Your new stance propsal looks solid.

As far as corona I really like the INT boost version, simple and clean. The strikethrough would take more work and it's returns would be more random.

The numbers i take for dps is a "base 100" (sorry i dont know how to call that math method in english). Since we're talking about percentages, then witha a base 100, you can have an average dps of 20K or 50 it doesnt matter, only the variations matter.

Now, i have no experience between the various monks.
Imho, each one should be heavyly parsed to see the differences in dps.
Again, imho, if we say that dragon>harmo>drunken in terms of dps, (or that this should be the case) then i think the differences should be by 10 to 15% percent maximum.

Solid ideas, what about a lvl 30 version that's half effective as the lvl 40? No reason to wait til the last 10 lvls to feel like a "Dragon".  I think i favor the 'Strikethrough' option though... as far as a secret enhancer... i'm still waiting to see what we can come up with for Secret of Transcendance, would hate to see a change on 1 to negatively influence the change on the other