Best Monk Set?

[Allyrion]

(I was told 100ss for .1gcd and 100 crit for 8% crit)

I can attest to that being true for SS, or at least close to it. It's more easily testable than crit considering you can just check the recast timer after increase. My test was with Selene. You can measure the increase in SS and the change in recast to get a decent formula.
Crit is obviously harder to measure.

[paradigmshift]

Has anything changed in your calculations? In another thread, I found some neat builds, but I found none that matched yours that ranked #1. Yours is the same one I came up with just messing with XiV with scratch paper math. Anyway what do you think about them...

If you prefer Det>Crit>SS, 60%>30%>10%:

Boots: Either
Head: Allagan
Waist: Allagan
Chest: Allagan
Legs: Melee
Gloves: Allagan
Bracelet: Allagan of maiming
Neck: Hero's
Earrings: Allagan of striking
Rings: Allagan of striking & maiming

You'll get 476 accuracy (4 over), +134 crit, +81 det, +32 ss.

This one is similar to Rank1, but was added up wrong, and Rank1 beats this build anyway....

[paradigmshift]

Edit:
Toying with different weights on this is silly. To shaft Skill Speed just a little less, here's one with .7 Det, .2 Crit, and .1 Skill Speed.

Weapon: Allagan
Boots: Whatever
Head: Allagan
Waist: Allagan
Chest: Melee
Legs: Melee
Gloves: Melee
Wrist: Hero's of Slaying
Neck: Hero's of Slaying
Ear: Allagan of Maiming
Ring: Allagan of Striking and Maiming

This gives 110 Crit, 103 Determination, 60 Skill Speed, and 133 Accuracy.

This one is the 2nd batch of builds i found interesting. Like ours, we still have det and crit focused, however these builds come with extra det, a tad less crit, and some more skill speed. is it worth it?

[KaosPrimeZero]

Ooooh yep I was missing a number. Here is the revised AF2 Chest set, it now ranks 27th

Rank: 27

• Weapon - Allagan Baghnakhs
• Head - Melee Circlet
• Chest - Melee Cyclas
• Hands - Allagan Gauntlets of Striking
• Waist - Allagan Tassets of Striking
• Legs - Melee Gaskins
• Feet - Allagan Sollerets of Striking
• Neck - Hero's Necklace of Slaying
• Ear - Allagan Earrings of Striking
• Wrist - Hero's Bracelet of Slaying
• Ring - Allagan Ring of Maiming
• Ring - Allagan Ring of Striking

Accuracy: 132 Determination: 84 Critical Hit Rate: 142 Skill Speed: 56

So 24 crit pushed this down 26 levels? Might be worth while to get till you get Allagan body at least. I mean it is in Turn 4 and your not gonna be in DL forever right? lol 24 crit is like just over 2% CHR, seems a bit drastic?

[Xell]

So 24 crit pushed this down 26 levels? Might be worth while to get till you get Allagan body at least. I mean it is in Turn 4 and your not gonna be in DL forever right? lol 24 crit is like just over 2% CHR, seems a bit drastic?

I think the important thing to remember about ranking these sets of gear is that the differences are incredibly small. The top 25-50% are probably all just a few points different.

[EasymodeX]

Thats true to some extent, but the returns on skill speed just don't make it viable. 100 skill speed will give you 4% haste whereas 100 crit will give more than 8% critical chance. (also TP starvation is a thing in coil)

100 crit will give less than 8%. Current formulas have it at 6.9% unless there's been significant testing recently post-valk's. In addition, Monks have a good baseline average crit due to Bootshine mechanics and a traited IR.

This is a set of gear, not a single piece. The program I wrote to generate this takes into account every permutation of gear choice and weighs them to determine the best set.

The question is what stat weights are being used. I have Excel with a solver function that can spit out similar results, but it goes back to how much modeling vs. simulation vs. "gut feeling" / bias there is with the stat weights. I use stat weights based on a rotation model / partial simulation.

There's also legitimate strategic considerations like TP drain re: SS, which may or may not matter depending on the fight (and which also is really a "breakpoint" function where SS less than a certain amount has a normal value, but SS above the "softcap" will have TP problems in long fights and therefore has low value ... actually I could probably model that softcap).


Sidenote: What the heck is with this "rank" concept? There's basically T5 BiS and T4 BiS. Everything else is irrelevant for identifying because it's based on your personal luck with gear acquisition, which is unique to each player.

[Zigkid3]

This one is similar to Rank1, but was added up wrong, and Rank1 beats this build anyway....

The build you just quoted was for someone using Relic+1 and weights 60%>30%>10%, Det>crit>SS
That's for a completely different scenario from Aeoliana's set in their original post. Their scenario is for someone using Allagan Baghnakhs weapon, and they're using different weights of Crit 1> Det .5> SS ? as mentioned in post #30

But, in that scenario of using Allagan Baghnakhs and having weights of Crit>Det>SS by 1>.5>0 (im using 0 as the weight of SS to imply that it's irrelevant, as I'm guessing Aeoliana did too)

Though i'm not sure what accuracy cap they are using. im assuming its 472.

in this case, my excel solver spits out:
Weapon: Allagan Baghnakhs
Boots: Either, they're the same
Head: Melee
Waist: Allagan
Chest: Allagan
Legs: Melee
Gloves: Allagan
Bracelet: Allagan of maiming
Neck: Allagan of maiming
Earrings: Hero's
Rings: Allagan of striking & maiming

Overall you'll have: Accuracy 473 (1 over), Crit +166, Det +84, SS +32

Aeoliana recommends:
Weapon - Allagan Baghnakhs
Head - Melee Circlet
Chest - Allagan Cuirass of Striking
Hands - Allagan Gauntlets of Striking
Waist - Allagan Tassets of Striking
Legs - Melee Gaskins
Feet - Allagan Sollerets of Striking
Neck - Allagan Choker of Maiming
Ear - Allagan Earrings of Maiming
Wrist - Allagan Bracelets of Maiming
Ring - Allagan Ring of Maiming
Ring - Allagan Ring of Striking

They got the same exact set I did, using the same exact pieces to also get overall you'll have: Accuracy 473 (1 over), Crit +166, Det +84, SS +32



So with the scenario Allagan Baghnakhs and Crit>Det>SS weighted as 1>.5>0, we got the same results.
So I have confirmed that given this scenario, then this is the best set.

However, if you would like to try sets with different scenarios (like what if you used Relic+1 for the weapon instead and you only need 94 accuracy instead of 131 acc to reach a 472 cap. Or what if you have a different cap you want to use? Or what if you want use different weights, maybe you want to try Det>Crit>SS instead, or maybe you want to go Crit>Det>SS as well but would like to have their weights of relative importance to be different (yes this effects how much the solver will go out of its way to grab one stat over another)? Then here is my excel sheet:

To view it you can look at:
https://docs.google.com/a/csu.fuller...tLTMtV0E#gid=0

To download it, and make adjustments of your own you can download it here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oeecuwfyic...14monkgear.xls

To make adjustments of your own, here are the steps:
1. choose your minimum accuracy requirement. at the bottom right you will see "accuracy YY >= XX" to change this, change the XX cell number on the right of the >=. To find what value of accuracy you need from equipment take your cap (472) and subract your base accuracy (341), you'll need 131 accuracy. if you are using Relic+1 which gives you 37 accuracy then you'll only need 94 from equipment instead.

2. Alter your weights to your content. On the right side under "relative importance" are how much you want to weigh each stat based on how important it should be. and no, it doesn't have to equal 100% it doesn't have to be something like 30/60/10, for example you could use 1/.5/0 if you want.

3. Click on the green box number, the total objective.

4. Go to the Data tab > then on the right click on "Solver" it has a question mark icon

5. Click solve. The solver will spit out the 0's and 1's in blue to tell you which pieces to use. It will also show you the sum of stats for the equipment, and multply the stats by the weights to show you what the total objective is which is the optimal point.



If you don't have the solver plugin on your excel here's how you can get it:
1. on excel go to file.
2. select options
3. select add-ins
4. select solver addin-in
5. click Go...

you can also find the other monk set thread here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...r-A-Discussion
I had to make a couple updates to my excel sheet, but now that those things have been fixed, especially now that i've compared it to Aeoliana's set following the same scenario and came up with the same answer, i can now say for certain that it is correct.

[Zigkid3]

The only question left is really how much does a one point increase in crit, det, or ss effect a how much increase in dps. then we'd know what the actual weights should be.

[Donjo]

This one is the 2nd batch of builds i found interesting. Like ours, we still have det and crit focused, however these builds come with extra det, a tad less crit, and some more skill speed. is it worth it?

I'm personally a goodly fan of that set. It satisfies my slightly selfish desire to "look" like I'm wearing the Melee set while avoiding the pitfalls of way too much Accuracy and Skill speed as a result of wearing too much of the set. Additionally, if Determination really is more important than Crit rate, then that 103 is going to wreck things. The only problem is getting that silly Allagan Weapon. It's the only non-trivial acquisition there

[Nexxus]

I think the best set will be:
Allagan Wep
Allagan Helm
Allagan Chest
Allagan Gloves
Allagan Belt
AF2 Pants
Allagan Boots
Allagan DRG Neck
AF2 Earrings
AF2 Bracelet
Allagan MNK and DRG rings

This gives us a total of 469 accuracy, enough to cap off with food, 488 str, 490 crit, 301 det, and 373 skill speed. Who knows if my math is correct. I much prefer Det and Crit to skill speed.

Turn 5 you're gonna miss with 469, not that much but still... 473~ is the way to go.

I did had some miss with 471 Acc.


I havent made a set yet, despit the fact that i'm almost full ilvl90 (so i could reach good amount of STR asap and now i'm gonna work on changing some pieces), i'd like to have 2 or 3 sets.

One Crit. set (without bard that can't regen TP, and keep the Acc.473)
One Skillspeed set (With a Bard that can regen TP, and keep the Acc.473)
One full crit.det set (with loss of ton of Acc. for lower mob or maybe Crystal Tower)