The Monk Temple

[Zigkid3]

you should be switching between demolish and snap punch.
Put up demolish first for the dot. then use snap punch the next time since demloish is already running, and then by the time you get your next couerl form demolish will need to be refreshed as its about to fall off.
You snap punch when demolish is already up, or if you know the thing you're attacking is going to die or something soon and know that demolish wont have enough ramp time.

[kukurumei]

you should be switching between demolish and snap punch.
Put up demolish first for the dot. then use snap punch the next time since demloish is already running, and then by the time you get your next couerl form demolish will need to be refreshed as its about to fall off.
You snap punch when demolish is already up, or if you know the thing you're attacking is going to die or something soon and know that demolish wont have enough ramp time.

Because it's not a training dummy and your rotations gets fragmented in a fight.

the boss is not nice enough to say "oh you finish your rotation, i'll do my thing"

The last phase of a boss battle, there is a high amounts of fragmentation, which breaks down your internal clock

it is much simpler to dk-twin-snap all the time, and then throw in a demolish on a whim then keeping demolish up.

Shouldn't you be able to do 100% beginning, 70% mid and 60% end. Using your numbers anyway. If you can't produce in a clutch there's no reason to not to produce when you can.
Valsh was just saying that always is a strong word.
The combat is enough that you can adapt depending on the situation, so yea can follow an easier "rotation" if your buffs are going to fall off and boss uptime is low.

If we just called it a a priority system, no one would even think twice about this. But we have to do it in cycles so everyone's hung up on considering it a rotation.

Well yes theoretically you should be doing 100% at the beginning, but there is such a thing as muscle training or worse, macros, and the more you try to train a complicated system, the more it'll fail you when goes irregular.

But yes, a priority system is best described. Heck drgs rotations of death, the first thing they must learn is to straighten out their priorities. NO boss is ever going to let you do your rotation of 20+ skills.

Reason I said, snap before demolish.

On the learning and journeyman stage of the battle, just dk-twin-snap will do woooonders for your battle. Spam all the IR you want, the bfb you want, the dodging you want.

[Valsh]

Because it's not a training dummy and your rotations gets fragmented in a fight.

the boss is not nice enough to say "oh you finish your rotation, i'll do my thing"

The last phase of a boss battle, there is a high amounts of fragmentation, which breaks down your internal clock

Can you name a few fights you feel "fragment" your rotation to the point where you have to use DK -> Twin -> Snap punch only. I can't, I honestly can't.

[Zigkid3]

All the more to keep demolish up then.
At least that way youll be doing more dps over time as dots tick especially for times when you can't just sit on the boss.

[Jabba]

Monk is an ok class, i just found the entire set of fists buff weak, and bootshine/truestrike
terribad.

[ilJumperMT]

Monk is an ok class, i just found the entire set of fists buff weak, and bootshine/truestrike
terribad.

Bootshine is one of our best skills....100% crit in Opo-opo form? Yes place its free 500 damage.

[kukurumei]

All the more to keep demolish up then.
At least that way youll be doing more dps over time as dots tick especially for times when you can't just sit on the boss.

No it doesn't because unless you got the battle down, you will be gimping your demolish with invul frames, and putting mental stress on yourself looking at the debuff timer.

The whole reason why snap is good is because you don't think and let muscle training take over, while your full concentration is learning and beating the battle...

No one is stopping you from demolish, the point is to not make it a priority. Like some crazy rotations that get passed around. Learn before use.

*sigh* reason mnks get a bad rep is because of such things. Over zealous reaching, leads to them falling off a cliff. Fast and manual comes with a heavy price to pay.

Bootshine is one of our best skills....100% crit in Opo-opo form? Yes place its free 500 damage.

Except DK is a much better spammer since it's flank giving you 2x the chance of not missing, and repositioning. I find a lot of mnks start loosing it, when the enemy is wonky, and they pause there over and over to get a proper boot in...when they could have fired 1.5 DKs in that time. Also you have to watch your IR timing, as it's wasted on boot.

Give or take, boot is also a liability until you got your fight down at 50.

[aycheff]

So I hit the 483 skill speed cap on my monk, and I'm trying to see what balance opener I can do that best awards DPS. This is what I've come up with, thoughts anyone?

Now granted, I don't always use balance in an opener. OFC save for fights where you know GL is gunna fall off and you need to get it up quick and/or a burn phase or something of the sorts. This is purely just speculation.

Balance opener:
Blood for Blood & Internal Release -> Perfect Balance -> Twin Snakes -> Snap Punch x3 -> Demo -> Fracture -> Touch of Death -> Regular Rotation (Dragon Kick -> Twin Snakes -> Howling Fist -> Snap Punch -> Steel Peak -> Bootshine -> ETC).

[aycheff]

Double post cause LOL1000CHARLIMIT

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My idea is I can start the fight with already buff'd DOTs. Your Demo/Fracture/Touch of Death will all get the Buffs from B4B and Fracture, 10% dmg from Twin Snakes, and 21% dmg from GL3. By time Touch of Death is applied the Twin Snakes buff should just be falling off. Sometimes I get lucky and the Dragon Kick after Touch gets the Twin Snakes buff, but its not that bad if it doesn't. From there on out it goes to regular rotation just weaving in Howling Fist and Steel Peak with Twin Snakes buff up.

Any thoughts or suggestions? OFC this isn't always ideal as you don't always start with Perfect Balance, but in the event that I can I like to try to see best ways to maximize damage.

[Riot55]

Okay, considering buying up the parts to make Gryphonskin. However, I don't want to buy every single animal fat at once to give me some to farm for, but I'd like to gear up a bit. Since I figure I'll replace them with Allagan armor eventually, what are the pieces that drop first in the Coil? Basically, what good pieces will be last acquired so I can make the Gryphonskin to tide me over longer? Should I make the chest and legs?