Arm Of the Destroyer....Still the same.

[Zalland]

Hey everyone this is my first post/thread and im a little nervous so please forgive any stupid mistakes lol. Anyways when I Play a job I Like to use every skill as effectivly as possible, but Arm of the Destroyer makes that hard for me cuz it has the highest tp costs of all your skills, it has a potency of 50 for a 1 sec silence. if you want to stun a enemy why not use steel peak or shoulder tackle why waste the tp to use Arm of the destroyer on 1 enemy? I was wonderin if any of you Monk masters know how I can effictivly use this skill at all? Cuz I see no effective way to use this skill in any rotation or in any situation besides in pvp since it is a huge tp/dps loss. thanks for any tips or advise

[OliviaBadger]

It's a 50 potency AOE that can replace bootshine if there's a lot of mobs. Can't remember the potency of bootshine off the top of my head (it also auto crits so is basically higher potency), but if there are 6 mobs, Arm is a 300 potency attack that's part of your combo

[Atreides]

It's still not worth using because it uses way too much TP for a meager 50 potency. :/
In fact it uses more TP than Rockbreaker which is 130 potency.
So unless you know that you won't be needing your TP anytime soon after that you should think twice about blowing them on Arm of the destroyer.

[Atlaworks]

Only use Arm if you need to silence stuff, really. Or there are seriously like 12 mobs for some reason. 50 potency is seriously half an auto attack, it's really bad. I mean, not one-ilm punch bad, but bad.

Rockbreaker is better in every way, and Elixir Field is just awesome once you get it.

[Humorless]

Once you hit level 50+ you'll never use Arm of the Destroyer again unless you want to annoy people inside a city.


Anyone that tells you the silence is worth using is wrong, it's not. You can count the things worth silencing in this game on 1 hand and the PLD/BRD/MCH/NIN will do it, not you.

[Cococai]

Arm of Destroyer is still usable for AoE of mobs over5 or 6. Instead of Arm I would very much like to get a revamp of Fist of Wind which is really non-usable.

[Humorless]

Arm of Destroyer is still usable for AoE of mobs over5 or 6. Instead of Arm I would very much like to get a revamp of Fist of Wind which is really non-usable.

No, it's not. the TP cost is far too high to make it worth using. You'll run out of TP before the mobs die. Keeping up your normal rotation with rockbreaker is superior in basically every situation.


If you want math, Bootshine is essentially a ~220 potency hit (scaling/higher with crit) thanks to the autocrit, for 60 TP. AotD on 5 targets is 250 potency for 130 TP. It's trash.

[Craiger]

Well, while it drains too much of your TP, it's still usable when clearing trash that dies fast...

That being said, I really wish they would decrease the TP by a ton. It's just a 50 potency AoE, so I don't see why it couldn't be around the same TP cost as single target skills.

[Wintersandman]

I tried using Arm of the Destroyer on big pulls along with RockBreaker. I was out of TP in no time and nothing was close to dead.

[Zalland]

First off let me thank everyone for your opinion, I agree that arm of the destroyer would be useful against 5,6 or even 20 mobs for damage but I got 2 complaints, is 50 potency worth 130 tp when u have elixir field, Rockbreaker, and howling fist that all damage groups of enemies for more potency and less tp? 2 you would have to spam Arm of the destroyer 3 or 4 times to even have any hope of doing any real aoe damage at all so u just wasted 390tp or 520tp in literally 3 or 4 seconds and u wasted precious time on your greased lightning stacks. And what I hope is that some moves in the Monks toolkit get worked on in a patch (im looking at fist of wind and arm of the destroyer).