Monk, Expected DPS, and Encounters

[EasymodeX]

Shrug. He's just observing something but making too many assumptions. Not a big deal. At least he's willing to out and test stuff and compare. Most people aren't.

For that matter, I don't know what phase-shifting the graph of a function means, although I may have back 15 years ago, lel.

[PenutButter]

It also depends on which parse you're using, this is true. In fact, the only truly accurate way to see how you fare is to find another MNK you know is good, or claim to be good, and parse in the exact same fight with both using the exact same parser. Both of your results will likely not completely agree but the relative difference in DPS should be about the same.

[ufufu]

I've been pretty frustrated with my MNK DPS. For some reason I've been finding it impossible to get much higher than 335-340 on dummies, and I'm i88. I've tried tons of different opening rotations, clipping DoTs vs. not clipping, etc, but I just can't break past right around there. I'm really not sure why.

[Kitfox]

I've been pretty frustrated with my MNK DPS. For some reason I've been finding it impossible to get much higher than 335-340 on dummies, and I'm i88. I've tried tons of different opening rotations, clipping DoTs vs. not clipping, etc, but I just can't break past right around there. I'm really not sure why.

Breaking past 340-350 starts to be more about optimal gear set, food, etc. You also get a bit higher if you can do a longer run, like using 2 invigorates for uninterrupted ~4:10 min run, but a dummy parse isn't really that important. If you can pull 340 on a dummy, it just means you're doing the simple things right. Live fights have a lot more variables that affect performance numbers like AoE, multi-DoTing, keeping GL up, directionals, timing buffs, party setup. And in the end live is all that matters, so get good at it, your base is fine.

[blueruckus]

Curious if anyone's run into any problems with ACT. Earlier today, I was playing for a good while then a few hours in, I notice that my DPS on parse was much much lower than normal. I'm at about 330 on a striking dummy normally, but after I noticed this drop it was triggering only about 215 DPS. I ran a few Turn 2s and DPS was low as well, in like the low 200 range. I rebooted client, ACT, reinstalled ACT, restarted PC and same issue. I then hopped on my laptop and tested there and sure enough I was hitting my normal 330ish DPS on striking dummy, but my desktop was giving out this wonky 215 range.

Any ideas why this might be happening? Is there a known issue about something like this and is there something I can do to fix this?

[hamsteak]

Curious if anyone's run into any problems with ACT. Earlier today, I was playing for a good while then a few hours in, I notice that my DPS on parse was much much lower than normal. I'm at about 330 on a striking dummy normally, but after I noticed this drop it was triggering only about 215 DPS. I ran a few Turn 2s and DPS was low as well, in like the low 200 range. I rebooted client, ACT, reinstalled ACT, restarted PC and same issue. I then hopped on my laptop and tested there and sure enough I was hitting my normal 330ish DPS on striking dummy, but my desktop was giving out this wonky 215 range.

Any ideas why this might be happening? Is there a known issue about something like this and is there something I can do to fix this?

this has happened to me a couple times, where i would reach 300 dps after like 3 minutes or something silly, when i'm usually higher

i'm not sure why though

[Vertiz]

I parse about 405 on my Monk give or take a few depending on RNG over 4mins30sec.

[EasymodeX]

Atomos is the best practice dummy. Cad and Titan EX are the best generic practice. Levi EX is the best practice after you can auto/afk your regular attack sequence.

[adahn]

in terms of reading the numbers though, atomos hp is a little too low. cad fight is skewed because of the boss split (so for smn etc the number is inflated). if you want to get a good monk parse that also matters it's gotta be turn 8. turn 7 is also very static though there's a lot of RNG affecting your dps.

[EasymodeX]

I was referring to Kitfox's and ufufu's discussion about practicing, not about measuring DPS. Cad is a rather good basic fight with basic mechanics to get good practice with execution. Upgrade that to Titan EX, then finally Levi. If you can clear all those while maintaining full DPS, then you should be good to go from a basic mechanics perspective on anything in the game.


As a sidenote, Cad is just fine for measuring Monk ST parses.