The Monk Temple

Hello everyone.We're actually with my FC farming coil and we'll be soon at T8(T7 will fall today)
I'm playing the melee and my main class has alwyas been DRG.But i lvld up a monk for cross kill first then just for the class to have both of them and being versatile.Considering this it's useless to say that i CANT spend my soldiery for both of them.Atm i use my monk cause i dropped the head+earing on T6 and i feel like the fight is much better in T7 with him(not loosing GL stacks often and not missing my heavy trust because this stupid turn himself to throw fireballs :S)
So i'm wondering ,can i try to go for almost full alagan?I know the stats are not the best but since i'll have the lvl 100 weapon (and 110 later i hope) and will spend my soldiery for weapon + DRG item,i can just count on loots.
This is my current set :http://fr.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/2817233/

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Originally Posted by T1M0N

So i'm wondering ,can i try to go for almost full alagan?I know the stats are not the best but since i'll have the lvl 100 weapon (and 110 later i hope) and will spend my soldiery for weapon + DRG item,i can just count on loots.
This is my current set :http://fr.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/2817233/

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Full allagan with animus weapon: http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/MA1M

Ya, the amount of acc should be ok if you use the Animus weapon to cover the accuracy. Mind you the allagan pants are probably a T9 drop, but it has no accuracy so it's doesn't change anything.

Edit: I just checked and saw you had the levi weapon, the acc (505) is still good with it if you eat food with the Tidal weapon. It'll make you have a wooping 168 crit with that.

Thanks for the tip.However i'm not using the animus since i'm farming my DRG animus and don't have time for both of them.So i'll probably take the weapon with the allagan token ^^
And about the pants,i'll probably take the soldiery ones since it drops on T9 and the soldiery seems to be the BIS anw.

All the mighty Monks out there I need your help in becoming a "decent" monk. I just made 50 after a long break PS4!

Am I doing this correctly?:

1)Bootshine(rear) - Twin Snakes (Flank) - Snap Punch (Flank)
2)Dragon Kick (Flank) - True Strike (Rear) - Snap Punch (Flank)
3)Bootshine(rear) - True Strike (rear) - Snap Punch (Flank) --->Internal Release
4)Bootshine(rear) - Twin Snakes (Flank) - Snap Punch (Flank)
Repeat with monitoring Dragon Kick buff and using Bootshine instead, also same with Twin Snakes and True Strike.

I throw in Demolish (back) and Touch of Death usually 2nd or 3rd cycle. I haven't gotten blood for blood, invigorate and bloodbath yet but will. I use shoulder tackle to keep Grease.

Btw once your reach Grease III and you do the 3 part combo correctly it stays up to Grease III? for some reason it feels like Grease I overwrites it......

Oh and when I use Internal release I just do 3 Snap Punches to get Grease III?......not to sure what to do after that!

With like only 9 SS from a materia on my gear I'm not too sure about the whole 2 BS combo starter after a DK application since I'm sure it would drop for me ;_;. I would say do:

1) BS - Twin Snake - Demolish

2) DK - Twin (my reasoning is that if you're flanking for DK don't have to move to reapply) - SP

3) BS - True - SP

4) DK - B4B - Twin - Internal - Demo - ToD

Then reapply the DoTs / Debuffs when they're about to fall (2-0 secs left).

I don't line up B4B/Internal afterwards and just pop them in between gcds whenever.

To answer your question about Greased you can't apply a I over a III so any moves that apply Greased again will refresh the stacks at III.

and for when you say Internal Release into 3 snaps I assume you mean Perfect Balance. In which case a rotation I found that's pretty sweet imo is

PB- Demolish - B4B- Snap - Internal - Snap - Steel Peak - DK- Howling Fist - Twin - ToD - Boot - True- Demolish

All that within the PB Duration then I do the combo sequence that I mention above.

Ideally, it's something like:

Shoulder Tackle -> PB -> Demo -> Snap -> DK -> TS -> Snap -> Bootshine -> True Strike -> Demo and just rotate your rear and flank skills, applying Demo every 3rd rotation. Also don't forget to use ToD and off-GCD's as soon as your buffs are up. Other than that just maintain your buffs/debuffs.

Again, this is in an ideal scenario, but that's probably the best/simplest opening rotation. Certain fights like levi, titan, and garuda ex will cause you to hold PB until something happens. Quick phase changes etc.

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Originally Posted by Kerikeron

Ideally, it's something like:

Shoulder Tackle -> PB -> Demo -> Snap -> DK -> TS -> Snap -> Bootshine -> True Strike -> Demo and just rotate your rear and flank skills, applying Demo every 3rd rotation. Also don't forget to use ToD and off-GCD's as soon as your buffs are up. Other than that just maintain your buffs/debuffs.

Again, this is in an ideal scenario, but that's probably the best/simplest opening rotation. Certain fights like levi, titan, and garuda ex will cause you to hold PB until something happens. Quick phase changes etc.

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If you are putting dragon kick and twin up with PB, you should be throwing a ToD in there after it wears, as your last move was a GL3 builder, so that you can do this.

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Originally Posted by Mister-Wonderful

If you are putting dragon kick and twin up with PB, you should be throwing a ToD in there after it wears, as your last move was a GL3 builder, so that you can do this.

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Like I said, using ToD once buffs are up. Where he decides to place it is up to him. I tend to use ToD in different spots depending on the fight, since fights like Titan EX I try to line up reapplying ToD's with landslides and such where I can't guarantee my position on the boss.

and for when you say Internal Release into 3 snaps I assume you mean Perfect Balance. In which case a rotation I found that's pretty sweet imo is

PB- Demolish - B4B- Snap - Internal - Snap - Steel Peak - DK- Howling Fist - Twin - ToD - Boot - True- Demolish

All that within the PB Duration then I do the combo sequence that I mention above.[/QUOTE]

Ok I've been playing mnk since ARR came out and it still bothers me why we include OGCD(HF AND S PEAK) in our PB. Why not HF and S Peak after PB. I do that rotation also I just don't know why that's considered optimal PB.

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Originally Posted by Butcherboy

Ok I've been playing mnk since ARR came out and it still bothers me why we include OGCD(HF AND S PEAK) in our PB. Why not HF and S Peak after PB. I do that rotation also I just don't know why that's considered optimal PB.

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Well you can do that if you want >.> it's not really a big deal, but putting them on cd ASAP can technically mean more uses per fight so why not weave them in between where normally you're waiting for the next gcd.

Unless you know you're going to need to stun/ you know adds are coming and save HF