Thread: Monk 3.0 CHAKRA UNLEASHED

Originally Posted by Aikota

You're not getting the crit on the first bootshine. (I'm an idiot...nevermind)

I would also use fracture first instead of ToD so you can get 2x fracture in, for fights like A3S, which would be a DPS increase. It really depends on how long the opening phase is for a certain fight.

I start my b4b after twin snakes so I get an extra bootshine/true crit with 10% damage also.

No worries. I'll try out that Fracture, ToD swap tonight :3 Wish me luck

Originally Posted by Ossom

Rotation :

Perfect Balance > Snap Punch > Snap Punch > Demolish > Dragon Kick > Blood for Blood > Twin Snakes > Internal Release > Bootshine > X-Potion > Touch of Death > Elixir Field > True Strike > Steel Peak > Snap Punch > Howling Fists > Dragon Kick > Shoulder Tackle > Twin Snakes > Forbidden Chakra > Fracture > Demolish

Let me know if you try it out and see any flaws, I've just started to hate doing form shift at the start for what seems to not be a dps gain.

I was basically using this opener but with demo, snap, snap, reversed the order to your's and magically all my dots, dk/ts, and a 2nd fracture line up perfectly... sigh, you are awesome! Only sad thing is not being able to see how much a gain I'm getting (ps4), though I'm sure it's not too large, the 2nd fracture and non-existent dot clipping must help some. Any who, thanks Ossom.

Ossom:

One thing interesting I have noticed about the opening sequence in relation to the highest monk parses on fflogs, is that they all start with demolish. Thoughts?

It's a really nice opener, and even with my low SS (486, cause Anima weapon) it still works perfectly. I do feel that it does increase my DPS compared to the Form Shift 3.0 opener. The best I did was 1571 without food, pots or party buffs at about 30% crit over 2:35 (maybe I was using Fracture too much).

Anyway, I'll try it out in Savage and see how it fares there

Originally Posted by KrazyBean94

It's a really nice opener, and even with my low SS (486, cause Anima weapon) it still works perfectly. I do feel that it does increase my DPS compared to the Form Shift 3.0 opener. The best I did was 1571 without food, pots or party buffs at about 30% crit over 2:35 (maybe I was using Fracture too much).

Anyway, I'll try it out in Savage and see how it fares there

Yeah I've been loving it in AS4 because it lets me get second fracture up on the first leg. It's really nice in there, I haven't got much practice with it in AS3 though but I suspect it should be fine in there too.

Originally Posted by Ossom

Yeah I've been loving it in AS4 because it lets me get second fracture up on the first leg. It's really nice in there, I haven't got much practice with it in AS3 though but I suspect it should be fine in there too.

is using the 3.0 opening a dps loss compared to your opener? http://ffxivrotations.com/2hg is my current opener. it seems that you will apply fracture 1 gcd earlier compared to mine, is that a big difference in a4s? i know also someone mentioned a very unique opener for a3s that started with like b4b on pull or something like that

Originally Posted by HesitatioN

is using the 3.0 opening a dps loss compared to your opener? http://ffxivrotations.com/2hg is my current opener. it seems that you will apply fracture 1 gcd earlier compared to mine, is that a big difference in a4s? i know also someone mentioned a very unique opener for a3s that started with like b4b on pull or something like that

The B4B before pull opener is probably the best for AS3 because w/e that MNK did in there was crazy. His dps was pretty freaking high. The rotation you linked, you should do Fracture right before that last Snap Punch, that will be a dps increase.

I honestly do not know how Snap Snap Demo rotations compare to Demo Snap Snap rotations so I can't say whether my rotation is better or not. I just do not like putting and keeping up a completely unbuffed demo at the start of the fight, so I put up a GL2 Demo instead. Your rotation puts up buffs a little earlier than mine so Idk when they fall off and what skills they do/don't effect.

My static has a Ninja now so I have effectively infinite TP which allows me to keep Fracture up as much as possible, I think thats one of the biggest DPS increases a monk can get right now honestly as long as you apply fractures correctly, at least compared to openers and stuff.

Thank god, i hate form shift

iirc the rotation that comes ahead is both of them depending on when the fight finishes, if the fight finishes at a point where Demo > Snap > Snap falls off at the right time it's their win and the same for Snap > Snap > Demo. So if you know the exact time of a phase change you can opt for one of the openers depending on when the Demo is going to fall off. But otherwise both openers deals about the same amount of damage as trying to predict when a fights ends is quite hard and therefore finding the optimal opener hard.