Thread: Monk 3.0 CHAKRA UNLEASHED

Originally Posted by Hitoseijuro

Whats your opener?

Also the 2000 dps monks for As2, I'm assuming you're referring to the FFlogs or BG leader boards ? They're all sporting 210 weapons and are in 208-210 ilvls. The only one that I know of that isn't sporting the 210 is Olivia Sen, but shes full 210 outside of that so 208+ 200 weapon. That is 36 extra str from your ilvl gear with +2 dmg and whatever else extra stat difference there is. That is roughly 57 stat weight points already against you(without factoring secondaries), don't worry mate, you'll get to that dps when you get the gear~

i206 here with i210 weapon and tbh it's all about sustain and maintaining 5 stacks on main priority targets at all times. Last wave can equal a lot of dps gains if aoed down correctly and then double dotting the widows with 5 stacks up. Just gotta make sure you're always attacking something with 5 stacks which goes without saying.

does anyone know, if A3 when he changes phases, is it HP% based? or is it just timed?

I'm asking because I want to try and time the phase just before he becomes a watery tornado and you kill adds, so that the last move I hit the double hand phase with is Snap Punch. So that way I can form shift back to snap punch, to use on the first add that shows up so I can keep my GL3. I've kept it a few times. But I'm not 100% sure when the phase is going to change.

If anyone knows thanks in advanced.

If it's timed, I'm gonna start using a stop watch to know when the phase is changing. if It's HP% basically all I have to do is feel for when it's about to drop to that %.

A3S is completely timed, minus a small deviation you can do by forcing the hands to clap inwards to force the phase change quicker.

Then again, I have seen the boss immediately enrage after the final normal Cascade, and I have seen the boss do magnets into stomps before enraging, so there is something weird when it comes to that.

Originally Posted by Sleigh

A3S is completely timed, minus a small deviation you can do by forcing the hands to clap inwards to force the phase change quicker.

Then again, I have seen the boss immediately enrage after the final normal Cascade, and I have seen the boss do magnets into stomps before enraging, so there is something weird when it comes to that.

thanks next time I get the chance, I'm gonna record the time and post it if someone doesn't beat me to it.

A lot of bosses enrage at a specific timestamp but you can throw off the rotations for some in various ways. Or maybe sometimes they throw themselves off (our second A4 clear had worse DPS than our first clear, in part because between one of the leg breaks the Manipulator decided it wouldn't show up for like half its mini-phase).

Originally Posted by Zamii

i know the ideal rotation can take quite a bit of getting used to, but its definitely worth practicing, if nothing else you would actually be better off dropping fracture entirely and just using demo every 3 rotations.

Thanks again Zamii for your tips.
I used the 1/3 demo rotation last time and my dps got higher (912dps @8% with 3 jumps Vs. 840dps after 1st jump). And I can still get better since I am of course not used to new rotation and made many mistakes.
Btw I was not loosing TS or DK with old rotation, but still using new one helped a lot

Anyhow, that's the old way, now I'm on a new one lol

Using ossom's opener.. I had more higher dps spike on it than the rest. However, our openers main goal is just getting gl3 up asap so i wouldnt worry about it too much.. In the end you just need to sustain your dps as much as possible.

Originally Posted by KaosPrimeZero

So what is the ideal rotation now? The first or second one posted on the first page, or something different?

I use lilyth's its roughly even with ossom's opener in potency last I check but I like the feel hers has, so I use that currently. Someone had a TK opener that potency wise was really strong for an opener because they moved a few abilities around and were able to sneak in a fracture all of this boosting up the spike to compensate for the GL3 loss, but after like 20 parses or so with it, it was still doing less than the other 2 openers. Maybe I just needed more time adjusting to it.