The Monk Temple Reborn

[PandaPause]

Monk 1200 dps with i179 (some alex pieces)

https://youtu.be/-MUB0z6Omys

Also, I don't know why people are still asking for an opener. Unless someone posts a higher pps opener, the one I posted is the one you wanna use.

Very nice! looks like hive weapon?

Im only i168 w/ some dungeon gear still and had a sustained 900 dps near a 16 min duration w/ no food or party buffs on a striking dummy. Would like to give the rotation in your video a shot once I increase some ilvl.

I also love the chocobo taunting the dummy as you wreck it lol

[Felix_Grimoire]

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Can you give me some feedback on this opener? It is essentially my attempt at a HW version of the one seen in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SapovIG92E0

Form Shift - Couerl - (Shoulder tackle) - Demo - (PB) - Snap - (Poison Pot) - Snap (B4B) - DK- (Draco Pot) - Twin - (IR) - Snap - (Forbidden Chakara) - Tod - (Elixir Field) - Boot -(Howling Fist) - True Strike -(Steel Peak)- Demo

I organized the OGCD's from highest to lowest potency with the exception of Shoulder Tackle because Alex boss arenas are fucking huge and you really want to be hitting the boss ASAP. You can get a fully boosted fracture before the last Demo, but the DK and SN buff will fall of and not be applied to their respective skills for that one cycle. If Esoterics gives us a little more SS this will not be an issue at allas I know a few people here don't like the concept of using fracture in the opener if DK and SN have to fall off.

[Humorless]

Eh, that's basically the standard opener right now. I would line up EF/HF closer to IR since it doesn't matter when you use FC (as it's not on a cooldown), but to each his own.

[Fatshine]

Can anyone give me a rundown of MNK post 50? I absolutely LOVED playing MNK but didn't main it because downtime + GL stack loss + shit AOE (coming from being a caster) put me off. Anything different? Also I remember my MNK friend talking about having a certain number of skill speed pre 3.0. Was that for the PB opener? Any detailed responses are much appreciated

[kyorakun]

Can anyone give me a rundown of MNK post 50? I absolutely LOVED playing MNK but didn't main it because downtime + GL stack loss + shit AOE (coming from being a caster) put me off. Anything different? Also I remember my MNK friend talking about having a certain number of skill speed pre 3.0. Was that for the PB opener? Any detailed responses are much appreciated

It's largely the same as before. Form shift is probably your most important new skill. Use it logically. If you know you're gonna lose grease no matter what, use tornado kick. You can also use chakra while dodging aoes or during downtime.

[Humorless]

Monk AOE improved but it's still nothing to write home about. The bigger difference is the casters being nerfed while ours was not.


Skill speed was never really an issue. 5 hits in PB can be gotten with base SS. It's not as worthless of a stat as it was before but it's still not worth getting and at the moment we don't have any choice in itemization anyway. You can get ToD off after PB regardless.

[Teleste]

Excellent guide. Thank you!

[Daega]

I dunno why ppl think monk aoe is bad. I parse higher than almost any other class with monk aoe. Better than SMN and BLM. Full GL3, all our buffs, and PB+RB I'm parsing almost 1000-2000 sometimes depending on how many mobs there are. Of course you can only do that so often but even without PB you can still do a crap load, just make sure you use purification and Invigorate as necessary.

[Voltron_HD]

My only argument of playing on the ps4 is not having a parser at my disposal....I would really like to know what numbers Im pumping out

[Humorless]

I dunno why ppl think monk aoe is bad. I parse higher than almost any other class with monk aoe. Better than SMN and BLM. Full GL3, all our buffs, and PB+RB I'm parsing almost 1000-2000 sometimes depending on how many mobs there are. Of course you can only do that so often but even without PB you can still do a crap load, just make sure you use purification and Invigorate as necessary.

If you're parsing higher than casters it means they're not using cooldowns or have a bad rotation. Especially SMNs just wipe the floor with everything, easily the top dps at the moment if played to it's potential.