NEED HELP IN MONK!!!!

[Bixby]

A couple of things to be aware of with macros (to give more detail on just how they slow you down):

Macros can not queue early the way raw abilities can. If you hit an ability from the spellbook ~ half a second early, it will fire when the GCD is done. That doesn't happen with macros, so you can't even attempt to activate it until the GCD is already done. Spamming the button cuts it close, but you've still got latency time in there.

Any macro with /wait or <wait> rounds up to the nearest second. This means if you use waits, you're sticking yourself with a 3-second GCD (because 2 won't work), which is even more pronounced of a difference between the effective GCD and what your actual GCD could be on MNK than it is on any other class.

That being said, there are a few abilities you might consider condensing. Sticking your damage buffs in one, for example:

/ac "Blood for Blood"
/ac "Internal Release"

Hit it once and B4B will go (if it's ready), then again for IR. Also possibly Shoulder Tackle and Steal Peak:

/ac "Shoulder Tackle"
/ac "Steal Peak"

If you're in range for Peak, that'll fire. If not, it'll try Tackle. You're either in range for one or the other (or neither), so you don't have to worry about which one is going to happen.

Beyond that, the main thing I'd suggest is swapping hotbars/actions, and/or using modifiers. Personally, I keep all my flank actions on an unmodified button, all my rear actions on alt, and all my AOE actions on shift. If you have trouble using modified buttons, you can make buttons to swap in actions/bars:

/hotbar copy MNK 4 MNK 1

/hotbar copy MNK 5 MNK 1

/hotbar copy MNK 6 MNK 1

Edit bar 4 to have flank actions, and stick the first macro somewhere on bar 5. Edit bar 5 to have rear actions, and stick the second macro in the same slot on bar 6. Edit bar 6 to have AOE actions, and stick the third macro in the same slot on bar 4. That way, you push the button that has the macro(s) on each bar, and your main bar becomes flank on one press, rear on the next press, flank on the next press.

You can play around with multiple things to swap in and out. If you only want to swap certain actions, there's also this syntax:

/hotbar action "Dragon Kick" 1 1
/hotbar action "Twin Snakes" 1 2
/hotbar action "Snap Punch" 1 3

That will put DK, TwS, SP onto hotbar 1, slots 1, 2, and 3 respectively.

Edit: If you can give more detail on just what kind of control scheme you've got and/or what you'd like to achieve, it'll be easier to give you more specific options.

[Vegeta100]

i am trying to get more dps with macro b/c using 1 hand sometimes i hit wrong button

[Chokee]

i am trying to get more dps with macro b/c using 1 hand sometimes i hit wrong button

you'd get less. just keep practicing.

[Kaze3434]

while most of the comments have been very helpful, imo they dont go far enough. take one hand away and try to keep a mnk rotation up for max dps. not really something most can do. best bet i would say is to see if you can find a controller from the guy who made one handed controllers. http://www.gamespot.com/articles/mod.../1100-6418235/ . not sure if they are up for sale tho.

[Chokee]

hmm how about this:

map your hotbar 1 to: 1,2,3,4,5,q,e,r,f,v,c
hotbar 2 to alt + 1,2,3,4,5,q,e,r,f,v,c
hotbar 3 to ctrl+ 1,2,3,4,5,q,e,r,f,v,c

target lock to capslock

everything you do is on your left hand.

i manage to do just fine. i don't use a gaming mouse because mine broke down and im too much of a cheap guy to buy another so i use a generic mouse instead.

also i can do content with one hand, and pick my nose with the other. its pretty rad.

[Bixby]

The only macros that aren't going to lower your DPS are ones that don't directly use your on-GCD abilities (see explanation above). Macros can't keep you from hitting the wrong button, and they can't keep you from using the wrong ability. You'll get more DPS out of accidentally hitting Twin Snakes instead of True Strike or vice versa than you will out of macroing GCD moves.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

Hi OP,

Unfortunately, macros and monks for excellent DPS don't mix.

I would recommend an X-Keys foot pedal. If you customize it, you should be able to access other hotbars easier. While it is a manual style of gameplay, it can keep you more competitive in a game like this.

E.g. customize the clicks to become CTRL, ALT, or some other option, e.g. Tab/Target Nearest.

Then reassign hotbar 2 to: CTRL + 1, CTRL + 2, CTRL + 3, etc.

Then using TILDE, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 as your action buttons. You should be able to get 18 to 24 actions out of your number row.

May not be exactly what you came to the board for, but the foot pedal may open up a few games that were tougher to play with one left hand.

[Naryoril]

To be honest, i think monk is the worst class you could have picked... Apart from using a lot of different skills in the standard rotation, which only repeats after 18 skill uses (and that's only counting the skills which are part of the standard 3-part-combo), you also have to reposition yourself constantly between back and flank.

To show what i mean with the long rotation, assume: DK = 1, TwS = 2, Snap = 3, Boot = 4, TS = 5, Demo = 6, then your rotation looks like this, and only if you can stay on the mob the whole time:
4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 3 1 2 6 4 5 3 1 2 3 and only then you start over, and of course you need to weave in Touch of Death, Howling Fist, Steel Peak and Internal Release. And if there are more than 2 monsters you'll need Rock Breaker too, and if it's really a lot of enemies or when you want to silence Destroyer's Arm as well. Not to mention all the defensive stuff.

All this leads to the fact that you can use hardly any macros if you want to be a good monk. Maybe you could make it a bit easier by putting DK and TwS in a Macro, as well as Bootshine and True Strike, because they usually come together, but even so it would kill a window for the skills which are not on global cooldown.

You'd probably be better off leveling another class. If i had to name one i'd say bard, but since i never played one this is not based on real knowledge, but only a feeling.

[Lewena]

As everybody has said, using maccros will lower your dps (with respect to a perfect one). However I think you can still put some of them together and limit the dps loss you will have. The maccros I was thinking to are
- Mercy Stoke with Twin or Snap or BS or True. Only one of them (to limit the dps loss) but spam it!
- Blood for blood with Inner Release
- All your defensive cooldowns together
I don't use maccro so I am not sure it works as I think though.

[LukeyP666]

Unlike some of the people on here, I commend you OP for being so persistent despite your disadvantage. Why play another class/job if you enjoy playing Monk?

As for how to maximise your DPS, I think the foot pedal mentioned by Fiosha might be a good idea. It will let you customise the pedals to whatever you need to make multiple hotbars accessible and also allow you to move more effectively. Bixby's suggestions have also been very good.

In terms of macroing skills, yes, it may hurt your potential maximum DPS, but macroing off-global-cooldown abilities to certain skills won't be too much of a reduction, as you would normally be weaving these in between your combos once they are off cooldown anyway. It may lower your potential BURST DPS, like for certain burst phases you might usually sit on and save Steel Peak, Howling Fist and Mercy Stroke, but if these are macro'd to combo skills, you will use them straight after performing the ability they are macro'd to, and since they aren't positional, you will probably use them when positioning for your next move in your combo.

While I was getting to grips with playing Monk, I had Mercy Stroke macro'd to Bootshine and Dragon Kick, so that I would automatically use it once a mob got to less than 20% HP following one of those two attacks.

A simple macro like the one below will work for this:

/macroicon "Dragon Kick"
/action "Dragon Kick" <t>
/wait 1
/action "Mercy Stroke" <t>

You can macro Steel Peak and Howling Fist to other skills in the same way.

Lewena's suggestion with macroing Blood For Blood and Internal Release might also work, as you would reduce the number of button inputs. Yes you will reduce your DPS by holding off on using Internal Release until Blood For Blood is ready, but it may help reduce the number of button inputs you need to worry about.

/macroicon "Blood For Blood"
/action "Blood For Blood" <me>
/wait 1
/action "Internal Release" <me>

I hope you manage to keep it up and that you stick with playing the class that you enjoy. Good luck!