How flexible is the basic Monk rotation?

[MonkDace]

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Right now my main hotbar is 1: Touch of Death, 2: Dragon Kick, 3: Bootshine, 4: Twin Snakes, 5: True strike, 6: Snap Punch, 7: Demolish. My muscle memory before was tied to "If we are at the rear, odd numbers, if we are at the flank, even numbers" so as you can see, fixing the redundant Demolish problem is tripping me up a little bit unless I can adapt it, otherwise I may have to take your advice and rethink the arrangement.

[Zakard]

personaly i put shift and ctrl on my mouse and i separate my skill by form and utility.

on first bar i put dk-twin-snap-tod-shoulder tackle-mercy (so its the basic opener with buff debuff)
second bar(shift) : bootshine-true strike-demo-fracture-steel (back attack)
third bar(ctrl): destroyer-one ilm-rock breacker-elexir-howling- (aoe)

all my buff like mantra,blood bath-second wind-infernal-bfb-evingorate-meditation-perfect balance etc are on q-e-r-t-f (+shift and ctrl of those on my 2 other bar).i also do the same with midle mouse (using change form,
purification and tornado kick on them)

its clean,everything is near and its easy to follow rotation.i do those keybind on every game now.i have lot of button on my mouse(corsair vengeance m95). i could set more on it but i didnt feel the need for ff14.

[LionKing]

Is it jut me or MNk burst in this patch is insane, I so many times grasp aggro off tank by blowing off all my OCD attack skills ( not even pop BfB or IR) in less than 10 sec, if they are not careful, even with my less sub-par gear and Lv 58 vs a Tank lv 60? Sorry if this is hi-jack the thread

[spelley]

Is it jut me or MNk burst in this patch is insane, I so many times grasp aggro off tank by blowing off all my OCD attack skills ( not even pop BfB or IR) in less than 10 sec, if they are not careful, even with my less sub-par gear and Lv 58 vs a Tank lv 60? Sorry if this is hi-jack the thread

Happens on my DRG as well sometimes. A good run of crits can nab aggro, and of I do the full opener I can almost time the aggro theft exactly to the 4.5k+ critical Jump following a critical Fang and Claw/Wheeling Thrust. At least as DRG I can Elusive Jump + Spines hatter Dive to shed some aggro.

[Cinicus]

You are never too high level to learn.

Unless your too high to learn...

[Meow9000]

This pretty much covers the basics:
http://i.imgur.com/6XMaU17.png

It doesn't go into nuances, but the main rotational stuff is there :P

This literally answered every question I had about monks, especially the diagram with flanks vs rear vs front on a target ring. Thank you!

[Kumori_Kumo]

Is it jut me or MNk burst in this patch is insane, I so many times grasp aggro off tank by blowing off all my OCD attack skills ( not even pop BfB or IR) in less than 10 sec, if they are not careful, even with my less sub-par gear and Lv 58 vs a Tank lv 60? Sorry if this is hi-jack the thread

As a Warrior who starts off pulls with Unchained as well as Berserk, yes, I still get Monks ripping mobs off me like Blu-Ray players on Black Friday. That stuff is out of control.

[MonkDace]

Got a clock of 1165 or so last parse on a dummy. I'm not sure if that's expected for ilevel 185 Monk but it is a good jump from before, so the advice is helping. Now I just need to perfect the opener, I think.

[Tanabe]

wow so high dps, i sit at 920, but i more or less just wing it as i go along, as you hardly ever get it perfect in a real fight with 1000 aoes to move around, if dot/buffs are up im happy.

[MonkDace]

wow so high dps, i sit at 920, but i more or less just wing it as i go along, as you hardly ever get it perfect in a real fight with 1000 aoes to move around, if dot/buffs are up im happy.

I'm flattered from the compliment but I'm still trying to be respectable competition for some of the other Monks on this forum. I don't do Savage Alexander so maybe that's why but some folks on here pull 1,400 DPS or higher on the same fight.

Still, on MNK I think you should at least nail the basic rotation and you'll get respectable damage at least in non-Savage content.