Curious about Monk DPS

[Krindor]

70% is the DPS you can do by only doing the regular rotation and positionals of DK > TS > Snap > Boot > True > Snap. Don't need to manage any dots or oGCDs. If you're popping oGCDs and using Demo and ToD even at non optimal conditions is going to put you at something like 90%.

[RyuDragnier]

70% is the DPS you can do by only doing the regular rotation and positionals of DK > TS > Snap > Boot > True > Snap. Don't need to manage any dots or oGCDs. If you're popping oGCDs and using Demo and ToD even at non optimal conditions is going to put you at something like 90%.

And yet people call MNK hard...it's pretty silly.

[Krindor]

And yet people call MNK hard...it's pretty silly.

The skill ceiling is high but to deal decent DPS is easy. Pushing the last 5% is quite hard and requires a lot more as you need to use Fracture which requires a lot more than just looking at its dot timer. But yeah overall MNK is one of the easier jobs to do good on and the FFlogs statistics supports this.

EDIT: For those wondering the 70% was a rough estimation done by me a while ago on reddit. This comes from counting average pps of a normal rotation with oGCDs and dots included and then count another one with only Snap, DK, TS, Boot, True. Just using the few moves mentioned it's about 70.4% of what someone using a full rotation would do. Skipping positionals brings this down to 55%. So all in all, with the same up time a VERY bad player should be dealing 52.8% of what a skilled player would, there's also additional stuff that can be added on and go over the 100% line that wasn't added in the calculations.

[SublimeIbanez]

The skill ceiling is high but to deal decent DPS is easy. Pushing the last 5% is quite hard and requires a lot more as you need to use Fracture which requires a lot more than just looking at its dot timer. But yeah overall MNK is one of the easier jobs to do good on and the FFlogs statistics supports this.

This is the important part. I would say it's more along the lines of the last 10% depending on the boss though. Ensuring to keep your DK up on the enemy while not reapplying your buffs or dots too early, and predicting when you'll need to use fracture while ensuring you never lose GL3, or burning Tornado kick in the optimal areas when Perfect Balance is up.

[Morzy]

And yet people call MNK hard...it's pretty silly.

People really really REALLY do not like positions. You either like them or you don't.

[Rongway]

People really really REALLY do not like positions. You either like them or you don't.

These people are doing it wrong. It's barely a half step difference between flank and rear. People who really really REALLY do not like positionals are really really REALLY overmoving to literal +90º/-90º flank and 180º rear.