Monk 3.0 CHAKRA UNLEASHED

[SunnyHirose]

Before you get too excited, consider that you also lose GL on autos briefly, the guaranteed crit on the Bootshine after PB, a Coeurl form GCD (net gain ~1 instead of the ~2 it appears to be), potentially DK/Twin alignment, and almost certainly some DoT uptime (monk DoTs have this shrinky stretchy thing going...). It's a short term gain like I'm sure most of us have suspected, and most likely an overall gain (haven't gotten around to checking, the above factors I listed should be enough indication of why I've procrastinated on that...), but it's not really 300 potency.

And the TK opener seems really impractical to me but I suppose it might squeeze a little extra on SSS if you really get it right (but then again, it's also probably not what SE had in mind...). I'm 100% sure a spreadsheet rotation listing every move for 3 minutes can answer that conclusively, at least.

[lunzlunz]

Fiddled around with ariyala aiming for 723 acc and with materia melds this seems to be the best I could work out for a BiS, thoughts anyone?
ffxiv.ariyala.com/T4AC

[Greywolfamakir]

Fiddled around with ariyala aiming for 723 acc and with materia melds this seems to be the best I could work out for a BiS, thoughts anyone?
ffxiv.ariyala.com/T4AC

802 Skill Speed...looks pretty high, maybe TP issues during progress.

[Transfinite]

Am I the only one who isn't okay with their choice of buffs for this patch? On my server, Monks are STILL being the less preferred melee DPS because of their lack of utility. I even saw a PF up today that only wanted a DRG/NIN/BRD or MCH/SMN or BLM. I don't think simply increasing their DPS was the way to go.

There are some serious statics that have been experimenting with various new combination that exploit the Monks high physical DPS with the Machinist's Physical Hypercharge:

Stacking Trick Attack with Hypercharge
Paladin, Warrior, White Mage, Scholar, Monk, Ninja, Black Mage, Machinist

Warrior, Dark Knight, White Mage, Scholar, Monk, Ninja, Black Mage, Machinist

[Transfinite]

Stacking Battle Litany with Hypercharge while giving the Machinist a Piercing Vulnerability Debuff
Paladin, Warrior, White Mage, Scholar, Monk, Dragoon, Black Mage, Machinist

Warrior, Dark Knight, White Mage, Scholar, Monk, Dragoon, Black Mage, Machinist

[lunzlunz]

802 Skill Speed...looks pretty high, maybe TP issues during progress.

Yeah it isn't ideal but this tier I think most builds will have us sitting at btwn 700 to 800. At least in a5s (cleared) I only ran out towards the very end though. With how a6s is looking to shouldn't be that big an issue (at 3rd boss).

I'd ideally like to know what sks let's me squeeze out an extra gcd at every individual phase but monks are so rare this tier

[Zamii]

Saw this in another thread.

This led me to ask if a better opener is :

Form Shift X 3 > Snap > Perfect Balance > Snap > Demo > Tornado Kick > Snap > Snap > Snap ...

What do you guys think? The one big thing I notice is that you will end up having Dragon Kick off at least 6 More skills than you would have had previously, not to mention oGCDs, which makes me think this isn't that great of an idea but I haven't done the hard numbers.

this opener was theorycrafted back in 3.0, and ultimately it was never as strong as the ones that are currently being used for the exact reasons you mentioned.

[Demkristo]

This is my prebis list, excluding savage gear, ~1023 crit, 600 skill speed and 685 accuracy (you can get more acc via melds or adding savage accesories)
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/T649

[GoToSleep]

this opener was theorycrafted back in 3.0, and ultimately it was never as strong as the ones that are currently being used for the exact reasons you mentioned.

Mind if I ask what's the current Meta opener? I just got back into the game and I quit a long time ago and I main Monk at that time. I'm looking to play Monk again so I would love to know good openers. There's 2 openers listed in the first post of the thread but I don't know which one to follow.

[Phireblast]

Mind if I ask what's the current Meta opener? I just got back into the game and I quit a long time ago and I main Monk at that time. I'm looking to play Monk again so I would love to know good openers. There's 2 openers listed in the first post of the thread but I don't know which one to follow.

Everyone and their Grandmother uses the demo>pb opener exclusively, but I use both depending on the fight.

If the boss does have a mechanic that forces you to not attack it very soon after the pull, I use the demo>pb one.

If the boss doesn't, I use the snap>pb one.

That's just me though.