The Monk Temple Reborn

[NanashiNaito]

The problem is we have to make such sacrifices to use Tornado kick and Meditation/chakra. Where other classes don't really have too. we have to sacrifice our GL3 or our GCD. yeah sure there's situations where you would lose GL3 so you can afford to do it or where you have downtime to meditate, but in relations to what the other melee jobs got we got boned. They get skills to help their dps and we get situational skills? Not to mention monks already have 2 useless skills in Haymaker and One Ilm punch.

[Butcherboy]

Haymaker and on I'll punch not useless I use it for PvP. But I agree with the rest yoshi and the dev team pretty much treated the mnk like in that movie called American Me lol

[ncx24]

Turn 4: between wave drops
Turn 5: divebombs
Turn 6: breaking vines, running into briar
Turn 7: cursed shriek
Turn 8: running into tower
Turn 9: divebombs, meteor streams, meteor drops
Turn 12: phase 2-3 transtion, phase 4 dodge
Turn 13: divebombs, earth shaker

theres probably more if you really look close

turn 4, you can use it turn 5 sure, but that only gives u what? a nuke to help with adds?,
turn 6 if you play right you wont even get 5 chakras up bc changeform
turn 7 shriek unless you get more than 2 you wont get 5 chakras up because change form
turn 8 lol running in tower change form would be better to ensure keeping stacks maybe you could get 1 or 2 chakras but thats it.... thats not a FC
turn 9 yes you can use it then
turn 12 nope not really you would be using form shift to ensure saving of stacks and after that you would maybe get 1 extra fc
turn 13 earth shakers you can do the tony hawk, and attack between earth shakers so no

[Ossom]

Figured it out guys. Here it is, Optimal Opener (ignored most of the oGCDS) :


Form Shift to Courel :

Snap > PB > Snap > Demo > Tornado Kick > Snap > Snap > Snap

I think that might be it guys.

[Ricdeau]

Figured it out guys. Here it is, Optimal Opener (ignored most of the oGCDS) :


Form Shift to Courel :

Snap > PB > Snap > Demo > Tornado Kick > Snap > Snap > Snap

I think that might be it guys.

What opener were you using without TK included?

[ncx24]

Figured it out guys. Here it is, Optimal Opener (ignored most of the oGCDS) :


Form Shift to Courel :

Snap > PB > Snap > Demo > Tornado Kick > Snap > Snap > Snap

I think that might be it guys.

someone did math with that opener and concluded it was worse than not using TK so yeah D:

[Hakmatic]

Figured it out guys. Here it is, Optimal Opener (ignored most of the oGCDS) :


Form Shift to Courel :

Snap > PB > Snap > Demo > Tornado Kick > Snap > Snap > Snap

I think that might be it guys.

So your not going DK for 10 gcds and you are not going Twin for 8? Sounds pretty bad, from what I can tell using TK in the opener is not optimal at all.

[ncx24]

So your not going DK for 10 gcds and you are not going Twin for 8? Sounds pretty bad, from what I can tell using TK in the opener is not optimal at all.

this, the rotation is change form -> coeurl -> demo->pb -> sp (IR)->sp(B4B)->TS(SP)->DK(HF)->SP(EF)->TOD(FC)->BS->TS->demo

[Zakard]

what is the dps of a monk with hight gear?i have seen lot of video of other class and they seem to outclass us by alot....they spike burst in the 1800 and have 1200-1300 consistant dps while the one i saw with monk seem to spike at like 1300 max giving everything in the opener with PB and get lower after that.the mechanic of boss also punish us like crazy so dps suffer a lot....i start to think about rerolling DRG atm...

[RyuDragnier]

Has anybody figured out the new suggested stats on equipment? Thanks to the changes in how they work, it feels like a bit of a shake-up and I'm looking at DET less due to the nerf and more towards SS and Crit, so a suggestion would be nice on what to aim for.