Thread: Monk 3.0 CHAKRA UNLEASHED

Originally Posted by Elkya95

Okay, I'm just gonna ask here just in case.
So my group went into Savage A1 yesterday and well I switched to Monk from Bard for expansion so I always feel like I do badly, and us wiping to enrage at 16/20% didn't help much. I was really wondering if you all had some tips for me on the fight. >_>

Need more details on your group comp and DPS that people were doing to really give any advice. Faust is a pretty crazy DPS check, and it appears that SE designed it so that most people will require a bit more gear before getting through. It's certainly not impossible to clear, but for most players is going to be quite difficult at the current gearing state. Just keep in mind that most people that went in to Savage A1 yesterday did not clear Faust because of this, and some others that did clear it did so by the skin of their teeth.

Originally Posted by Ricdeau

Need more details on your group comp and DPS that people were doing to really give any advice. Faust is a pretty crazy DPS check, and it appears that SE designed it so that most people will require a bit more gear before getting through. It's certainly not impossible to clear, but for most players is going to be quite difficult at the current gearing state. Just keep in mind that most people that went in to Savage A1 yesterday did not clear Faust because of this, and some others that did clear it did so by the skin of their teeth.

Well, we clear Faust just fine. We run MNK/MNK/MCH/BLM/WAR/PLD/SCH/WHM as well.I usually have me and the other monk around 950-1100 depending on mechanics and all that, blm is right under us and mch right under him again.

Originally Posted by Ricdeau

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The only screen I've seen with a parse at the end of a clear is this: http://i.imgur.com/ynysj56.png

we can still go higher, by the end of my clear i was at 955 dps, and that was while using LB and getting mini'ed for the last 10 seconds of the fight, and with an abysmal 18% crit rate.
with better rng on crit and what not, i was normally above hovering around 1000-1050 on most enrages.

other random bits of info i picked up from my A1 savage clear...

the oppressors jump approx 5 seconds after the tank cleave following the missiles exploding, so you can time your tornado kick with this cleave in mind.
when your dealing with the adds, you can do a 2 steps forward 1 step back to keep your gcd rolling at all times and still move the adds relatively quick.
if you hit the add relatively hard for whatever reason, ie string of crits, etc, you can throw a couple gcd on the oppressor as you go past them to your marker.

Originally Posted by Ricdeau

Ooh, the way it was initially worded I assumed you were talking about Faust since that's where most people were getting hung up around the percentages you gave. My apologies on that. Sadly I must admit we did have much time in there last night so I have no major advice on the Oppressor. Your DPS sounds about right from what I've seen though. However, those additional details you provided should give some others that got some decent time in there a little more insight as to your situation.

The only screen I've seen with a parse at the end of a clear is this: http://i.imgur.com/ynysj56.png

Dat WHM name doe!

Also. In order to fix monks all they need to do is make Med an off gcd and put an appropriate cd on forbidden chakra. Not only will that help to alleviate the gap in dps after you consider the raid dps the other two melee bring, it will allow us to incorporate pur into the fight multiple times when its actually needed without fucking us out of the globals used to stack for it because:
A. if youre running dry it means theres almost no downtime to use med without losing dps to regain tp.
B. if youre forcing med into your rotation instead of a dps gcd, youre saving some tp while doing it anyway making pur worth that much less.
Also while form shift is nice to start a fight, and will help to keep stacks up sometimes. more often than not you land on a dk/bs or ts/ts when the mob flies, or the time its gone is longer than your gl stack allows anyway even if everything is perfect. they should make it sustain the current gl stack if used on demo/sp. which would prob be a little op but, you would still be penalized by having dk fall off the boss and having to reapply and ts fall off of you and having to reapply. while this would make form shift kind of broken, not being pretty far above other jobs in st while bringing 0 raid dps utility would be balanced. right now all raid dps utility is worth far more than usual because of how much healers and tanks are having to dps to down the current content with the available gear level, even if your dpsers are good they still need to put out quite a bit making those buffs worth that much more.
The same thing should be done for mudra to fix the lag issue, being able to weave them into your rotation would fix the server lag randomness of mudra timings and having the actual skill bounce back all at once. but this wont be done cause whoever thought of the bunny will be butthurt.

A1 accuracy for flank seems to be 570. With how coil was, it can be assumed that A4 acc will be about 600.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...accuracy_caps/

Does anyone have a good bis set? I've been fiddling and it seems that to hit around that acc, I have to get an enormous amout of SS :I
While aiming for Crit/Det puts me with too much acc.

oh hi i am the monk in the screenshot. yeah we can go higher, we finished that run with us almost unconscious because too tired. and we haven't optimized the run yet so lasers and void zones are all over the place making me miss a lot of positionals. we just scraped that win by a few seconds. and we were so eager to finish asap we end up doing a1 savage before we farmed this week's normal

Our clear I was like 980, but 1k should be achievable on a good run/switch at the end.