Monk 3.0 CHAKRA UNLEASHED

Updated and put Dervy's initial stat weights for monk and accuracy cap.

PS.
Sorry its taken this long to update the guide. RL stuff got in the way. My current static is also missing people so haven't gotten the chance to really get into savage apart from a few times with pugs. If anyone wants to add anything new in regards to tips and tricks in savage please post it and I will include it in the guide. But by the looks of it, its not much different from normal apart from of course having extra more mechanics added from the old ones.

Hmm, I must be doing something wrong. I switched to MNK from NIN, partially due to Mudra-bullshit-lag, partially because I was overall sick of it. I'm ilvl 188 (have the i200 wep) and I do a steady 1200 WITH food/pot/party buff (chocobo) on dummy.

I wasn't using fracture, because I'm not sure WHEN to use it. Makes me feel like shit considering there are videos and parses of MNK's doing similar DPS with like ilvl ~180-184. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Give us some more details and we can help narrow down where you're falling short.

I'll figure ut the 1200 + once i have the gear, the only thing holding me back from it is that pretty much.

Honestly in my video a did a single fracture and its not that great anymore. Not worth losing its slot, but it not as amazing at it used to be.

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Originally Posted by Ricdeau

Give us some more details and we can help narrow down where you're falling short.

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Well, I'm using this: https://i.imgur.com/6XMaU17.png as a reference. That opener, not using fracture at all. Using all CD's and oGCD's when available (after opener). I'm starting to wonder if I'm maybe refreshing Demo/ToD wrong. They never fall off, I always try to refresh them in between 1-3 seconds left. Sometimes I do refresh Demo at 4-5. Could be too much skill-speed, but after two Snap Punches it feels like I have too much time before I'd "need" to refresh it (if that makes sense).

If all else fails I'll fraps myself and upload it.

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Originally Posted by Laur1x

Sometimes I do refresh Demo at 4-5.

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This is when you Fracture assuming you have not used ToD during the set of DK/TwS buffs. Once you get really comfortable you can tell when Demo is going to have that extra time so you can fit it in where ever to ensure you don't interfere with ToD, DK, TwS and allow them to fall off. Just remember DK/TwS will last for 7 GCDs so if you refresh ToD during that time you will not Fracture and your Demo shouldn't end up at 4-5 seconds during that either typically.

Also make sure you're using Shoulder Tackle on cooldown unless you need to save it for mobility (that flow chart only references it in the opener). It makes up roughly 2% of you damage if used every time it comes up.

Edit - Are you using controller or keyboard/mouse? How much damage is your auto attacks making up total?

I tried messing with Fracture earlier...with 600 SS, my TP went dry before 3 minutes even with Invigorate. Stupid law/alex gear.

Some dummy parses I found:
1200@i179 https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...1200_dps_i179/

1224@i183:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ox1gAvLtqBA
And the guy also has a screenshot of a higher parse(1324@i186 with party buff,morel salad HQ, and HQ drac pot), I assume it's with i200 weapon.

so looking good I say :)

I recently swapped to Monk from WHM so I've been heavily reading the monk threads here for advice.

We finally went into A1S (Faust only, didn't clear him) the other night and I think I did 1150-1200 dps at i190. Looking at these numbers, I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I'm not using STR pots because I currently can't afford them, and I was using Black Truffle Risotto, then switched to Lava Toad Legs once I noticed a single miss at 575 Accuracy. Oh, our party makeup was: Monk, Dragoon, Summoner, Machinist, WHM, AST (I think I was getting the Arrow/Balance cards, but they may have been Expanded ones), Paladin, DRK.

After reading this thread, I've been trying to work Fracture into my rotation since I wasn't before and it's seeming to be more difficult than it should be. I understand it's just DK-TF-SP-BS-TS-Dem-ToD, then repeat and replace ToD with Fracture (as well as using Snap Punch 2 of every 3 Coeurl stances), but sometimes I miss one rotation of the dots. And I pop cooldowns every chance they're up. To avoid animation lock, I just use one oGCD per weapon skill. Is that correct? I saved my chakra stacks for Purification since I'm burning through TP on Faust.

Any other tricks I might try to use to pick my dps up a little more?

http://puu.sh/jtFqS/7b01436029.png

since everyone seems to be curious about where you should be in terms of dps, i did a few tests and got one of my more avg crit rates, if anything its on the low side, regardless you can see it for yourself.

for reference, that with x-pot and black truffle (yes, im cheap) and party buff.

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/3315531/
you can check my gear there