Monk Gear / Questions / Advice

[Gokku]

Figure there's been a few threads made asking whats good for X slot or in X situation etc. so instead of having people make a new thread every single time we can use this thread. Try to keep the flaming to a min , and people don't be butt-hurt if someone says your gear is bad its constructive criticism. That being said ill go first.


Is there any other leg slot item with higher then VIT+5 * not counting the augmented chance of +6 on byakkos since getting +6 vit +5stp and +4 crit dmg would take forever.*

[Alderin]

I only know of Kensei which are +5. So in answer to your question, no I don't think so.

[Mnejing]

Would Bruiser's earring + Faith + H2H merits + tantra hands +2 = another dmg tier?

[Gokku]

yes it is .
puts you @ 47.19 Base dmg then +3 and +35 weap *assuming 90 vereth* = 85

[Monchat]

There was a discussion in another thread about a neck+earring combo better than this. Basically neck+ear would give you +1 base damage, i.e equivalent to +4 STR, and 10 attack 9 acc. Pretty sure I saw a new necklace with STR4 attack+15. Accuracy wise, there are many better options for both slots. Ziel charm+ tantra earring is 16 acc, so you basically compare 6 acc with 0.5 base dmg and 10 attack. Also faith torque + moonshade earring[regain/acc or regain/att] should be better [ here you basically compare 1 regain to 1 base dmg]

[Gokku]

the 4 str 15 atk neck has 5% slow

[Motenten]

After checking a lot of comparisons inside and outside Abyssea, it looks like:

Neck order:
Rancor > Calcitrant > Faith

Earring order:
Moonshade > Aesir > Tantra > Bruiser, except for Faith where Moonshade > Bruiser > Aesir > Tantra

Calcitrant+Moonshade beats Rancor+anything-but-Moonshade, but otherwise Rancor+anything beats everything else, and Calcitrant+anything beats Faith+anything.

This assumes the Calcitrant Stole provides +10 kick damage, since it comes 11 levels after our last kick damage upgrade.

[Gokku]

After checking a lot of comparisons inside and outside Abyssea, it looks like:

Neck order:
Rancor > Calcitrant > Faith

Earring order:
Moonshade > Aesir > Tantra > Bruiser, except for Faith where Moonshade > Bruiser > Aesir > Tantra

Calcitrant+Moonshade beats Rancor+anything-but-Moonshade, but otherwise Rancor+anything beats everything else, and Calcitrant+anything beats Faith+anything.

This assumes the Calcitrant Stole provides +10 kick damage, since it comes 11 levels after our last kick damage upgrade.

what gear sets / merits are factoring in and can you post the ACC levels of all along with the dps etc.

[Greatguardian]

what gear sets / merits are factoring in and can you post the ACC levels of all along with the dps etc.

^, if at all possible.

Or a link to an Alla thread, if it was posted there.

[MarkovChain]

what gear sets / merits are factoring in and can you post the ACC levels of all along with the dps etc.

In uncapped acc neither rancor, faith or calcitrant should be > to ziel charm and moonshade can be +acc instead of +att. In uncapped acc moonshade (regain+acc) + ziel charm should come ahead of all setups since the crit on Rancor or the +damage or +attack on other gear doesn't contribute to WS frequency. I belive his comparison is capped acc. I think also that rancor in uncapped acc is a lot of sacrifice for little benefit over something like ziel charm.

Also I beileve he is inputting numbers in his spreadsheet so do the same and verify the math behind. I checked the WS frequency calculations long ago and they were correct.