Let's see some Monk parsers

ahhhhh icic

MNKs should be aiming for 100-110+ DPS on Miser's Mistress (Morbol), which is probably the most MNK-friendly fight in the game right now. If you get unlucky on where she moves, overall number should drop down to 85-95 after the fight's over, but if you can put your parser up on a second monitor or something, you should still see consistent 100-110 while she's stationary.

What I think bears testing now is switching to FoW for combo-enders then immediately reactivating FoF. Theoretically this should raise the DPS ceiling by a fair amount, but it also commensurately raises the skill ceiling.

As long as we are talking about bosses, how do other monks handle Chimera? I have no problems until sub-25% when the floor goes wild.

We tank the boss at the NW corner of the battlefield, so I can't stand behind it (exposes me to sand traps) or stand at the left or right flank (exposed to breath). If I use guerrilla tactics, the traps catch me--there simply isn't enough time to escape, even when I move in just as the trap fires and hug the wall on the way there and back.

The current strategy is lay down and die as soon as possible in order to switch to ARC or BLM, but that feels a little defeatist to me.

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Originally Posted by Almalexia

As long as we are talking about bosses, how do other monks handle Chimera? I have no problems until sub-25% when the floor goes wild.

We tank the boss at the NW corner of the battlefield, so I can't stand behind it (exposes me to sand traps) or stand at the left or right flank (exposed to breath). If I use guerrilla tactics, the traps catch me--there simply isn't enough time to escape, even when I move in just as the trap fires and hug the wall on the way there and back.

The current strategy is lay down and die as soon as possible in order to switch to ARC or BLM, but that feels a little defeatist to me.

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The only reliable way for melee DPS to get into the fray at 25% is for him to be tanked in the middle of the field. This of course sets up larger problems for the Ranged DPS/Healer group due to VoTD.

We're going to be playing around with doing a full fight with kiting him around in tunnel worm blasts for shits and giggles. It certainly requires more skill than just faceroll burning from a single position. =/

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Parse of Mistress Fight in the Vale, 6 MNK, 1 WAR, 1 WHM

so much lols, also did this on her... <3 MNK for this fight


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Nice, were you able to kill her before she moved?

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Originally Posted by carraway

Nice, were you able to kill her before she moved?

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10% I think, probably woulda made it if WHM was nuking full on because I was preventing animation lock around that time so I could meele as it ran (so ~2500% TP) and saving that TP helps force the Lily depop fast.

Right on. We had a MNK (Peng) sustain around 120 stationary DPS on Mistress, so it should be possible to kill her before she moves.

Also, with a little bit of additional testing, it does look like you lose too much damage switching to FoW for combo-enders specifically on Miser's Mistress. I don't yet think that that's a universality, but we don't really prefer MNKs on any other fight at the moment.

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Originally Posted by carraway

Right on. We had a MNK (Peng) sustain around 120 stationary DPS on Mistress, so it should be possible to kill her before she moves.

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Yeah, I am sure since it moved with me saving TP my DPS dropped, along with the run etc. I probably was closer to 115-120 when it was stationary as well though I don't check the parser midfight.

I think its possible also but everyone needs to be pretty beast and not forget fists of fire (lol) or miss any combo's etc. WHM nuking would help a lot also, though I am unsure of how much bonus time they have to do so.

MNK is deliciously fun on Moogle now and makes the fight much better.

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