Monk, Expected DPS, and Encounters

[Kuroshi]

Hello, all.

I was wondering if a 'good' monk could post a SS of their DPS on dummies. The theoretical 'perfect conditions' to see where I stand.

Recently, ever since Titan EX, I have been in a rut with my MNK DPS. I see posts here people saying they can do 300+ in lower ilv gear than me, whereas I rarely break 220 on the fight if only gaol'd once or twice.

In an effort to try and figure out what I'm doing wrong, I feel like I have been up and down these and other forums, visited the BLITZBALL website, and been constantly doing any and all types of dungeons/trials and CT to see where I stand, what I'm doing wrong, where I can improve, etc.

I've tried to time my strikes to keep GL3 through a Titan jump, and even when conditions seemed 'perfect' to me, I was unable to keep them. So I'm a bit skeptical that people on this forum just say, "any good monk will keep their GL3 stacks on EX" (by perfect condition, I mean I was hitting Twin Snakes as Titan jumped in the air, at this point there is 7 seconds left on GL. The ACT plug-in, by default, will split encounters where there is a gap of 6 seconds or more between and it splits each titan phase into a separate encounter)

As a personal preference would the monk community say it's better to use Twin Snakes to refresh the buff if it will fall off in the next 1-5 seconds, or to use True Strike and do 1-2 strikes without the buff?

Here is the most recent dummy parse I did. The philosophy was opening with Perfect Balance, ignoring buffs prior to GL3 stacks then priority:
1. Keep GL3 up (moot on a dummy)
2. Keep Dragon Kick buff up
3. Keep dots up(no clipping)
4. Keep Twin Snakes buff up
5. Use Steel Peak/Howling Fist on cooldown(preferably paired with Blood for Blood and Internal Release)


I have Fracture, but I dropped it from my bars completely. It appeared to lower my DPS when using.




TL;DR

Good/Excellent Monks please post parsers on dummies and your gear so I can see if I'm doing something horribly wrong and if my priorities are out of whack. Thank you.





Concerned with getting my acct banned I won't post SS of my gear and stats but..

The below parse is with:

Spharai +1(Zenith) ilv88
STR - 475
DET - 245
CRT - 452
SSP - 490

http://grab.by/v9MO

[Bixby]

How do you guys get beyond the 1000 char limit?!

Edit. No limit on edited posts.

[xEscaflownex]

You can set the encounter culling to whatever you want, 16 seconds keeps it to one encounter for all fights - just manually end when boss dies.

[Kuroshi]

Thanks, Misake. I will swap to full DL(if I have it, not sure) and see how the numbers are in that gear.

And thank you, Escaflowne(sp), I adjusted the culling time to 16 seconds.

My posts are really messy, I don't normally post. I just haven't gotten a real clear answer to the questions I have by looking through old posts.


If you didn't look at the screenshot, my dps is 332.34 in it.

[Misake]

I recently tried a full darklight set on a dummy just to see the dps and I averaged around 280 with a max of 300 dps. So if your rotation is optimal, then you would be doing more with your gear, I'd say around 330 perhaps even more..

[xEscaflownex]

Also, my MNK is only i83, and I pretty much never play it, so don't know what the optimal rotation is, I just went and stood to the dummies side and spammed the flank rotation, didn't apply any dots or move at all to utilize any of the rear combo - and that was 324 DPS, so with more gear and right rotation, should be way above that on dummies, think many have shown doing 370-400 on dummies (not real fights).

that was with:

Hellish Claws ilvl83
STR 462
CRIT 454
DET 334
SSPD: 341

I will say your 245 DET strikes me as way low, pretty sure most MNKs AND DRGs I see stack DET

Overall DPS same duration as you: http://i.imgur.com/xU3CSQb.png

DPS pie chart: http://i.imgur.com/E9sSLJx.png

Like I said, using laziest rotation possible, just flank attacking. Adding gear and good rotation should be way higher than 330 I would think, and have seen others post.

adding in touch of death upped flank rotation to 330.18 dps

[Misake]

Oh sorry, I didn't see the tiny url. Well It's fine I guess. It's probably possible to push alil more but 330 ain't bad.. Let me know your parse with the DL.

EDIT: And to answer the question why you're doing less dps on Titan extreme; there are plenty of reasons, it may be that you don't know the fight 100% which makes you hesitant and/or cannot perform optimally. I suggest you watch some videos (the good ones) and see if you could learn some tricks to maximize your dps.