Quote Originally Posted by DerpyCubone View Post
wait wait wait
"Because I never tested something so very specific as whether your DoT has to be stronger, or equal in strength, to overwrite."
You never hit a dot refresh before on your way to 50? Or were you 50 at the start of ARR? I'm not being a smartass here I'm generally wondering. Because that might explain alot. I was a Bard in 1.0 but remade on a fresh start server so I could play with some RL friends. If you didn't have the ARR solo experience, that honestly might explain your views of GL and solo/non-boss fight stuff.

From about the 30-40 range on Monk I thought about giving it up. It was annoying to quest with. Your ability to kill and move on was just meh. It sucked to see my Drg friend just rip through enemies, while I hit things with 130 attacks in the face so no crits while being unable to keep GL up because the next enemy I had to kill was 7 seconds away and I only had 4 to get there.
I do not DoT refresh on MNK. Never had to. I knew right off the bat, from simple theorycrafting ( and then damage testing) that clipping my DoTs on MNK was a net DPS loss. Once I decided that "refreshing" DoTs on MNK is bad practice, I did not need to know the exact specific mechanics behind when I can or cannot overwrite. I just knew for a fact that an unbuffed DoT would not overwrite a buffed one.

Yes, I had all battle classes 50 coming into ARR (obv. besides ACN). I did, however, use beta phase 3 to roll a pugilist from 0 and level it all the way up to the cap at the time. That is how I first learned how to play the new MNK. Plenty of solo experience. I will admit that MNK isn't as good as some other jobs when it comes to solo play, due to being highly dependent on positional combos and having trouble chaining targets effectively.

However, do I need to look back through your posts and pick out your quote where you say you're fine with certain jobs being better at certain things? It seems like something you would do.

BRD is still going to remain the best job to go out solo farming with lol. Heck, I switch to BRD when I want to go farm mats.

Also I can be a smartass all I want and point out hypocritcal things in your comments, like you have been doing to me anytime I mentioned DPS
Just like this!
"See, when you try to cling to that for like 3-4 posts in a thread and try to use it as ammunition to suggest I don't know how DoTs work or suggest it says a lot about my MNK then it's just funny/desperate."
"or when you chime in with support for suggested changes that will in fact upset the balance of DPS jobs by overpowering MNK."
Not asking for DPS changes, but you keep coming back to that in 3-4 posts. Says alot I think. I'm asking for a fun adjust, you keep bringing it around to DPS balance... granted anything that do will have to address that, but that can be done easy enough, alot of other games have, I don't see why XIV couldn't as well.
I called you out on your smartass remark there because it was out of line. You were suggesting a contradiction in my posts by taking 2 bits out of context. It wasn't hypocritical. It would have been hypocritical if I suggested my personal parses were my sole evidence for suggesting MNK is amazing DPS.