The Monk Temple

[Ehayte]

2.2 is supposed to drop in "March," so 6 weeks could be accurate.

P.S. Between beginning my Coil career in PUGs, and running with a static, then building my own FC group, I've seen 34 Coil drops on my main character and have never received a single piece of Allagan loot. I feel that pain immensely.

[NoctisUmbra]

2.2 is supposed to drop in "March," so 6 weeks could be accurate.

P.S. Between beginning my Coil career in PUGs, and running with a static, then building my own FC group, I've seen 34 Coil drops on my main character and have never received a single piece of Allagan loot. I feel that pain immensely.

Then there will come a night where you run coil and suddenly all turns drop MNK loot.










This night will be the first night of farming Turns 1-5 once the lockout has been removed.

[Yoten]

What do people think about the new stat weights put forward by EasymodeX in this post?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1761108

Following those, you'd end up with BiS being:

(Pre-T5): http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/LQOP

(Post-T5): http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/LMO7

The weird part about this is that he values skill speed almost as highly as crit. EasymodeX, how did you arrive at those numbers?

[Shayuki]

How's that strange? For Monk I'd value skill speed higher than crit, actually. Crit has diminishing returns and Skill Speed has increased returns, so the more of both you have, the better skill speed is. Combine with Infernal Release and Bootshine lessening crit's effect even more and it should be an obvious conclusion. The softcap I'd place at 2.00 on 3 greased lightning stacks because when you go lower than that, you lose dps while using skills that are off GCD.


Furthermore, I've noticed that with very low, minimal skill speed like in your sets, I actually cannot use 5 skills after Perfect Balance, at least while using non-GCD skills in between them. That's why in you post-T5 BiS list at least, I definitely would swap Hero's Necklace of Slaying with Allagan Choker of Striking and Allagan Tassets of Striking with Hero's Belt of Striking, giving you 32 more skill speed and 32 less crit. Probably can do similiar swaps all around, because I just don't see how crit could possibly be better than skill speed for monk. Bootshine takes approximately 1/6.666 of your GCDs so at least 15% of your crit for your skill damage is 100% wasted(or was it 1/6.333? Either way...).

[buckler173]

Here's my rotation so if anyone is interested on it.

TOD (Touch of death) - Impulsive Drive(from DRG) - Bootshine - True strike - Demolish 1ST Rotation
Fracture (from MRD) - Dragon Kick - Twin Snakes - Snap Punch 2ND Rotation
Impusilve Drive - Bootshine - True Strike - Demolish 3RD Rotation
Fracture (from MRD) - Dragon Kick - Twin Snakes - Snap Punch 4TH Rotation
Then repeat all rotaion

Here's the thing this works good especiialy when you have your GS3 already as you don't need to put up TOD as much as Fracture cause TOD has 30 sec effect on the enemy.
Hopefully this helps other Btw on your GS1 and GS2 its up to you if you want to put up TOD. Btw I always use this rotation on Titan so I think its quite effective

PS: You should move the moment you use Snap punch as the animation is quite long XD but it still works if you even if you watch it.

[Shayuki]

This is a very bad rotation. The impulse drive makes absolutely no sense, wasting your TP and delaying your stack application. Furthermore, you randomly use True Strike before Twin Snakes in the first rotation - this makes no sense. You can just use Twin Snakes for a second time if you want to combine it with Dragon Kick, that still does more damage. Third, you use Fracture. Fourth, you apply Demolish and Fracture before they tick the full duration. Fifth, when you reapply Touch of Death with this rotation, you will miss one GCD worth of Dragon Kick and Twin Snakes uptime.

[Shirai]

Generally you want to wait with dots until GL3 is up, although I tend to use Demolish for the GL2>3 transition.
Aside from that with the True strike update in 2.1 Impulse drve has become quite useless as you're throwing away 70 TP for 180 potency against 190 Potency for only 50 TP.

The rest is covered by Shayuki above me.

[buckler173]

This is a very bad rotation. The impulse drive makes absolutely no sense, wasting your TP and delaying your stack application. Furthermore, you randomly use True Strike before Twin Snakes in the first rotation - this makes no sense. You can just use Twin Snakes for a second time if you want to combine it with Dragon Kick, that still does more damage. Third, you use Fracture. Fourth, you apply Demolish and Fracture before they tick the full duration. Fifth, when you reapply Touch of Death with this rotation, you will miss one GCD worth of Dragon Kick and Twin Snakes uptime.

Look the Impulse Drive is just a preference. You can put it away if you don't want it I'm not implying it to everyone to use it. For your information I can still do everything without missing any uptime and Fracture is for increase of DoT.

[Shayuki]

I actually like making Demolish the first Coeurl form skill that I use, the base damage still is 310 and the duration ticks out just after you gain your third greased lightning stack. Demolish(GL1) -> Snap(GL2) -> Snap(GL3) -> Demolish(fully ticked and buffed by GL3).

I don't see any reason to ever use Snap Punch for the first Coeurl move due to this.

Look the Impulse Drive is just a preference. You can put it away if you don't want it I'm not implying it to everyone to use it. For your information I can still do everything without missing any uptime and Fracture is for increase of DoT.

You prefer dealing lower damage? I prefer dealing higher damage. I guess that's preference.

The rest of your post makes no sense. That's not possible.

Unless you confuse "missing no uptime" with clipping in which case you actually are wasting 2 ticks of the DoT every rotation.

[Shirai]

I actually like making Demolish the first Coeurl form skill that I use, the base damage still is 310 and the duration ticks out just after you gain your third greased lightning stack. Demolish(GL1) -> Snap(GL2) -> Snap(GL3) -> Demolish(fully ticked and buffed by GL3).

I don't see any reason to ever use Snap Punch for the first Coeurl move due to this.

Interesting.
Aside from that, I may have missed the memo somewhere, but why is it bad to use Fracture?

Look the Impulse Drive is just a preference. You can put it away if you don't want it I'm not implying it to everyone to use it. For your information I can still do everything without missing any uptime and Fracture is for increase of DoT.

No it is not a preference, you are throwing away 70 TP on a skill that does less damage than one that costs 50 TP.
Shayuki is not the only one saying your rotation is bad.