I posted this last night on Reddit, and according to the reply, apparently TMS had the respawn rate increase removed entirely from Kishin two years ago, which might explain why adding the Frenzy Totem/Monolith broke Kishin. You know, like if they merged in handling of such things.
The link to the TMS notice might also explain KThxBaiNao's announcement that Kishin has been "broken" this entire time, since they cite the reason for the respawn rate increase removal being the Kishin glitch in TMS. Rather than fixing the Kishin glitch, they just took out the respawn rate increase. That doesn't explain why the respawn time decreases from 5 seconds to 3 seconds with Kishin, however. Or why they'd release Frenzy Totems that function like old Kishin if it was "broken". I believe the respawn time is 3 seconds in TMS with Kishin, according to the video I linked and my reasoning in the post. I guess I can find another video of a non-Kanna training there to compare the respawn times.
The link to the TMS notice might also explain KThxBaiNao's announcement that Kishin has been "broken" this entire time, since they cite the reason for the respawn rate increase removal being the Kishin glitch in TMS. Rather than fixing the Kishin glitch, they just took out the respawn rate increase. That doesn't explain why the respawn time decreases from 5 seconds to 3 seconds with Kishin, however. Or why they'd release Frenzy Totems that function like old Kishin if it was "broken". I believe the respawn time is 3 seconds in TMS with Kishin, according to the video I linked and my reasoning in the post. I guess I can find another video of a non-Kanna training there to compare the respawn times.