Why bring MNK to anything anymore?

[pouncing]

At nine T13 clears on my main Lord Pounce I can honestly say that MNK is not dead at all. We are still #1 ST DPS not by as much as we used to be though. Even with an i130 (ironworks) I still out dps our nin (dreadwyrm, he is pretty good at nin I have parsed against others as well) by about 10-20 dps. I also dont think the future looks to bad because out of all the melee dps MNK scales the best with gear. A 1 weapon damage upgrade for a MNK is about 20-30dps while for a nin it is only 10-20. This means that as gear increases the gap increases in favor of MNK.

dont be afraid to switch your armor for the job at hand. For T13 I use DET gear because PB is always up for when I need it, but for something like T9 savage I use SS because we can now get enough to keep greased through the second dive jump.

As for T10, I rarely miss positionals there. you can still get back attacks off during tail swipe (even on the adds) and you can still get positionals off during heat lightning be standing literally in the middle of the bosses targeting circle as well as opening the middle for the tether early.

In T11, on the chance that you get forked you can be at max melee range and not hit anyone with it. also on spread outs where you have to leave the boss remember to use shoulder tackle (to few MNKs dont abuse this skill when it will save your stacks and stacks=everything).

T12, like I said earlier, if you do it right PB is up everytime you need it (at least with our strat).

T13, Shoulder tackle and stance dancing are your friends. also learn the cover trick for earthshaker and if you get it twice learn to weave them.


PS: making these threads is pointless its just annoying and discourages new players from playing certain classes

[Truedragon]

At nine T13 clears on my main Lord Pounce I can honestly say that MNK is not dead at all. We are still #1 ST DPS not by as much as we used to be though. Even with an i130 (ironworks) I still out dps our nin (dreadwyrm, he is pretty good at nin I have parsed against others as well) by about 10-20 dps.

Most likely you outdpsed him because you are using ironworks chest which is BiS for monk while your ninja is not BiS. If he were to optimize it further, that 10-20 dps difference will vanish like snow before the sun.

[Kuroyasha]

Most likely you outdpsed him because you are using ironworks chest which is BiS for monk while your ninja is not BiS. If he were to optimize it further, that 10-20 dps difference will vanish like snow before the sun.

Yea that anecdotal 10-20dps just mean the nin gotta get better, get better geared, or get WTFast