Counterstance…

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I'd have to disagree, the boots as part of this Set state the following, "Enhances "Counterstance" effect"; this leads me to believe it IS designed for Counterstance.

You're talking about 1 piece, which doesn't even need to b kept on. It can be macrod in and you're talking about the entire set, not just that one piece of gear.

The gloves also enhance chakra.

Is the entire set built on Chrakra's weaknesses?

You’re list of gear helps Evasion Skill, that has nothing to do with Counterstance what so ever,

I was making an example to show you had no clue what you're talking about.

Guard has nothing to do with Counterstance, either. If you are guarding, it's because you're not countering. Same deal w/ evasion.

With all these listed, my record so far is 22x Counter attacks in a row, however; it's an average to say I usually counter 75%-80% of attacks 4/5 area.

you do know the hard cap, excluding perfect counter is 80% counter rate, no?

-Other melee feed way too much TP, which makes a Counterstanced MNK unable to handle the Physical Weapon Skill Damage, because, with a PT, they happen far to often and /NIN is a bad option for Counterstancing because it nullifies the ability to trigger until shadows are gone. So MNK needs a new ability to help deal with Physical Weapon Skills.

LOL, what are you talking about? I can eat spike flails w/ counterstance up and still have no trouble w/ dying. Go quest your abyssites of merit. Nothing physical attack should be able to one shot you in this game right now.

I'm trying to drive home the point this ability needs to be revamped, so it's useful and not just a slot taken up on the ability list.

Am I reading this wrong, or did you just say counterstance wasn't useful.

Counterstance was beyond useful before and during abyssea.


Before abyssea? Mnk/nin. What happens when utsusemi Ni is down and you're waiting on Ichi? Counterstance. When you counter while casting, your spell is not interrupted. Countering was the single thing that set monk tanking apart from not only any other DD/nin, but nin as well.

Abyssea era? Mnk/war. Mnk/war can tank 9.5/10 mobs in abyssea. Yes mnk/war. Why? a combination of hitting the counter rate hard cap and whms being bottomless pits of mp.

I don't see how you're saying counterstance isn't useful. The only time I don't have the ability up is because it's been dispelled.


Edit: Stop using Retaliators.

You have to be getting swung at to counter. You wouldn't even hold hate off my corsair in a pair of those silly things.