Monk 3.0 CHAKRA UNLEASHED

[GageRage]

1391 DPS A3S

Pretty much down to Balance abuse and trick attack I'd say. Not much else to say except maybe having a perfect add phase. Everything else is pretty standard stuff in the fight. Also take a look at the RDps and Enc Times. This obviously also plays into these best personal parses. An extra minute in some cases. I'd probably say the most impressive is the #2 on the MNK leaderboard. 11:26 kill time with some sick deeps.

The way stuff lines up for me during the add phase is pretty much b4b at the beginning (used on cd prior comes back up for second prayer/parting). Elixir is pretty much used on CD regardless of add positioning. If it comes up and they spawn in range well gg. Howl comes up with IR and generally used as the second wave spawns, again it's used regardless of aoe opportunity. Elixir, IR and Howl are all up for hands. No b4b for first, b4b for second. AOE opportunity is taken here. Apart from that there's not much I can see being different except maybe holding aoes for the eventuality that 2+ adds spawn together. It may end in a dps loss if held too long though.

[Kilio]

Hi i would like to know in a situation where both of TOD and Demo DOTs left about 4 - 5 secs, what did you do? Did you do Fracture or refresh TOD or Demo right away?

[Hakmatic]

I haven't been doing a lot of monking but in that situation I would clip them both if you are buffed with ir or b4b. If not just let them fall and reapply next rotation.

[SunnyHirose]

The rules of the normal monk rotation as they apply to that situation is: Demolish at 4, use ToD when the timer says 1. You will clip about 2 seconds of Demolish, and you will not have ToD up for a very short time, but the alternatives are worse.

Fracture isn't an option at that point because you don't want to use two out-of-form GCDs (Haymaker, ToD, Fracture) in one Dragon Kick / Twin Snakes (not clipping Dragon Kick / Twin Snakes is pretty much a DPS loss... skipping over a Bootshine / True Strike is even worse). There are ways to use Fracture to keep this from happening, but it's too late to do it in that situation.

It's a bit more difficult to see why you should use Demolish over the Touch of Death, or even why the Touch of Death should always drop off for a short time (~1 second). That's because you'd have to actually track all the potency to find out that it's very slightly more DPS to have the full potency of ToD and 14/15 of your rotation be the 18-step pattern than to have most of the potency of ToD and 13/14 of your rotation be the 18-step pattern (it's also more TP-efficient).

And finally, the reason you'd clip Demolish there instead of letting it fall off is because that represents a lot of Demolish downtime (that's just another thing where you'd have to track down all the potency to even see it's a loss).

[Kilio]

I haven't been doing a lot of monking but in that situation I would clip them both if you are buffed with ir or b4b. If not just let them fall and reapply next rotation.

Ok so let them fall if without buff, and clip them if buffed...and on that same situation, during buffed condition, i would think that it's safer to clip TOD first which leads to Demo being 2-3 sec, then refresh demo. Is that correct?

[Zamii]

the only way i can see getting into that situation is if you didnt fracture beforehand, thereby throwing the timers out

[Kilio]

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Hm ok that makes sense..

I have been using the old 3.0 rotation but due to recent upgrades on skill speed i got greedy and use Fracture before my second demo (3 sec before fall off) lol, that is probly why i got into the situation as Zami mentioned...i should remove the fracture i guess to avoid this...thanks guys for the advise

[SunnyHirose]

the only way i can see getting into that situation is if you did fracture beforehand, thereby throwing the timers out

It can come about without that. Example:

Touch of Death
Bootshine
True Strike
Demolish
Dragon Kick
Twin Snakes
Snap Punch
Bootshine
True Strike
Snap Punch
Dragon Kick
Twin Snakes
Demolish
Bootshine
True Strike
Touch of Death
Snap Punch
Dragon Kick
Twin Snakes
Snap Punch
Bootshine
True Strike
Demolish
Dragon Kick
Twin Snakes
Snap Punch
Bootshine
True Strike
Snap Punch
Dragon Kick
Touch of Death
Twin Snakes
Demolish
Bootshine
True Strike
Snap Punch
Dragon Kick
Twin Snakes
Snap Punch
Bootshine
True Strike
Demolish
Dragon Kick
Twin Snakes
Snap Punch
Touch of Death
Bootshine
True Strike
Snap Punch
Dragon Kick
Twin Snakes
Demolish
Bootshine
True Strike
Snap Punch
Dragon Kick
Twin Snakes
Snap Punch
Bootshine
True Strike
Touch of Death
Demolish
Dragon Kick
Twin Snakes
Snap Punch
Bootshine
True Strike
Snap Punch
Dragon Kick
Twin Snakes
Demolish
Bootshine
True Strike
Snap Punch
Dragon Kick
Touch of Death
Twin Snakes
Snap Punch
Bootshine
True Strike
Demolish
Dragon Kick
Twin Snakes
Snap Punch
Bootshine
True Strike
Snap Punch
Dragon Kick
Twin Snakes <- right here
Demolish
Touch of Death
...

If you are trying to use Fracture to make your Demolishes perfect, it's a little tricky but it can be done. The rules are:

- You can only use one DoT per Demolish
- You can only use one DoT per Dragon Kick
- You can only use one DoT per Twin Snakes

So ultimately, the pattern needs to look something like ToD - Demo - Frac - Demo - ToD - Demo (loop, but with forms I and II flipped). There isn't a lot of wiggle room here.

There is another way to use Fracture; it's a lot easier to pull off and does more DPS, but it's definitely a TP burner (and it isn't really worth spending chakra on Purification just so you can do this). The trick is to alternate between ToD and Fracture for each Dragon Kick / Twin Snakes cycle--and yes, this clips ToD. Some people may recall me talking about this before HW and how you'd alternate Snap Punch and Demolish for this one (clipping Demolish heavily), but since they added the extra 3 seconds, it's now better to Demolish-Snap-Snap when you do this.

[Zamii]

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sorry, i was supposed to say didnt use fracture beforehand, if fracture is used properly it should avoid that occurance

[Hakmatic]

I would clip demo then tod. I haven't really mathed it out but this is just what I feel would be best.