Monks should be be miles ahead of the competition in terms of DPS in Shiva EX...

[Jim_Berry]

Kinda off-topic, but...

Why do the DPS run from Shiva when she do that aoe early in the fight?

[Mirakell]

Kinda off-topic, but...

Why do the DPS run from Shiva when she do that aoe early in the fight?

Do you mean when she does hailstorm? As this attack does more damage if the circles around the players overlap etc so everyone is suppose to spread.

[CYoung187]

Do you mean when she does hailstorm? As this attack does more damage if the circles around the players overlap etc so everyone is suppose to spread.

I believe she is talking about the first icicle impact in phase 1 where dodging the one hit and stopping dps gives no gain at all.

[Ren_Taka]

I believe she is talking about the first icicle impact in phase 1 where dodging the one hit and stopping dps gives no gain at all.

If you take the hit, you take more damage from the vulnerability debuff which makes it harder for the healers to keep everyone up.
Plus, if you're on the lower end of the gear level there, that can put you very iffy towards surviving some of the hits you have to take or put you into the "one mistake is fatal" range.