Monk 3.0 CHAKRA UNLEASHED

[Krindor]

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I would say that it is a bigger DPS loss for MNK as we got quicker auto attacks and need more movement. Of course the only players that need to use lock on are those with legacy settings, while you are using lock on to move there is a lot more people that don't and you see them turning away from he target for 0.5-1 second. With the AA speed of MNK being affected by GL and positionals on most moves 0.5 seconds is going to be an significant delay at the end of the battle. In a 12 min long fight like A7S were a MNK if catered to has probably 95% uptime it's going to be a significant damage loss as depending on when he moves he is going to delay the AA for up to 1 second depending on timing. At the end of the fight that can end up being something like 30 missed auto-attacks, which is about 30k damage which equals about 41 DPS. This could mean the difference between a clear or wipe when close to enraging.

[Krindor]

I'm unsure if you just mean controller but i've never used lock on with legacy on PC.

I mean legacy, you don't strafe while moving regularly in legacy mode which causes you to not face the target while moving, it's the same on pc as on controller if I'm not wrong. I don't have the strafe specific buttons bound so I don't know how they work in legacy but if they strafe in legacy then using those would have the same effect as moving normally in standard mode except that you will turn around when moving backwards which in some specific cases will result in a small dps loss.

[Phireblast]

Running MNK/DRG/MCH/SMN for a7s for the first time tomorrow. Anything to know?

[Livaille]

Running MNK/DRG/MCH/SMN for a7s for the first time tomorrow. Anything to know?

Refresh greased lightning before the boss jumps if you have to go inside a dps cage, if possible don't go in the dps cage with the prey and you'll have to use purifications.

[Krindor]

Running MNK/DRG/MCH/SMN for a7s for the first time tomorrow. Anything to know?

Make other people in your group do your jail mechanic, it's a DPS increase, charge chakra whenever there's movement and you know you won't lose GL, use the chakra for purification. If your group does your mechanics you're going to have a high amount of uptime and it's a 12 min fight so getting as much TP back as possible is important.

[Crocel]

I would love to have some advise on my current Monk build and what to spend my lore on after I get my lore weapon next week? I plan to go into A5S after I get my weapon but I'm not sure if I should swap some pieces out.

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/TZXX (I do not have the melds on my Arm and Belt gear right now but will do soon)
I can't kill the A7S dummy (No Food or Pots) just yet but I am very close, I'm not sure if that is good or bad with this build right now.
I feel like my Critical Rate might actually be too high here, as well as my Spell Speed. I used to have a lot more Determination when I was a few ilevels lower and I don't feel much of a DPS increase with this build.

[Krindor]

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I really doubt your Spell Speed is too high. You're just going to have to adjust to the skill speed level you have due to how our gear just has either ACC or SkS on it. As for lore pieces I would probably say go Earring > Bracelet > Gloves > Legs. If the pieces you got only have a stat weight difference of 2-3 str the difference in DPS is something like 4-5, considering that a dummy parse can vary a lot more than that it's very hard to notice it until you got a couple of pieces. The biggest difference you're going to see is the weapon upgrade which is going to increase your DPS by about 40.

[Demkristo]

When you are hitting the boss and then, because of mechanics, you need to stop dps and focus on something else and after that you return back to boss with Coeurl form (dragon kick and dots are gone already), what you usually do for maximum dps? Apply Dragon kick first and then dots: Snap>DK>TS>Demo>ToS or just skip Dragon kick and apply all the dots first: Demo>ToS>DK>TS>Snap?

[Claymore022]

i always go for maximum up time for demo but i'll save ToD for when i'm in gl3 and DK and TS are up. So in that situation i'd do demo> DK> TS> ToD> snap if i didn't lose stacks. Generally though, twin snakes is always up if i don't lose stacks. If i lost GL3 then i'd just start with demo and do the normal rotation and then apply ToD when i hit gl3

[Ossom]

When you are hitting the boss and then, because of mechanics, you need to stop dps and focus on something else and after that you return back to boss with Coeurl form (dragon kick and dots are gone already), what you usually do for maximum dps? Apply Dragon kick first and then dots: Snap>DK>TS>Demo>ToS or just skip Dragon kick and apply all the dots first: Demo>ToS>DK>TS>Snap?

GL3 and Twin Snakes are the biggest buff for Demo IIRC. Even if Dragon Kick isn't up, do Demolish over Snap.