Thread: Monk 3.0 CHAKRA UNLEASHED

Originally Posted by Saigwa

How many purifications are you going through? Since there's not much downtime in A2s, I find I can only use it once from when i've built 5 stacks before the fight began and possibly another time right before the 4 jagged dolls spawn but risk losing GCD dps (potentially GL3 as well) to build it up. Course I'm probably managing my TP horridly compared to you guys... When I hit 1.4-1.5k utilizing Rockbreaker, that is having all the goads and 2-3 paeons..... very painful for our bard's dps

3x mostly. First purification I use after the second wave (would be around 700tp after using RB), it would be back up in the middle of wave 5 with both widows up, then at the start of wave 8 around the time when you kill 2 jagd dolls and the next adds spawn and get grouped together. In wave 9 it will be back up around the middle of it but I manage to finish the fight without it at that stage.

Originally Posted by Saigwa

For those monks out there who have cleared A2 and possibly A3, what numbers are you pulling? Also if you could include A1 numbers that'd be great. My group is currently having issues in A2 with DPS, meeting enrage with about 15-20 seconds worth of dpsing left to do on the last widow when the big bomb goes off. Our bard is having to play songs quite often, and I have resorted to not using rockbreaker as much as possible to help TP issues, since my TP is like a black hole when I use it.

A1S our monk usually does 1050+ but we kill the boss before 3rd jump.
A2S our monk usually does around 1500+. I think he offsets purification and invigorate so that he has a TP regen every minute or so. If the lack of TP causes you to delay a gcd, you're better off charging a stack of chakra and he continues this until he has 5 stacks for purification.
Can't give you a3s numbers since we're still polishing up adds phase

Whenever anyone asks me about their DPS performance the first question I respond with is "Are you using Legacy camera mode?"

If the answer is yes then I'll make them switch to Standard camera, or get used to using lock-on religiously. It always surprises me how much people underestimate the impact this has.

Unfortunately I switch to SMN for A2, so can't help you there. My numbers have been completely horrible lately anyways due to this stupid lag (thanks Verizon Fios).

I'm relegated to gobwalker duty in a2s sadly. But before I get in it Im around 1500-1600, but also out of TP. Are people getting TP song to sustain all those rockbreakers?

Originally Posted by pompey_dan

I get 2nd goad when our nin gets into the 3rd gobwalker I think. Brd gets 1st/3rd. If you have a drg or nin in your set up they should be doing gobwalker as our aoe is actually decent+sustainable now compared to other melee.

That was my stance as well, but yeah, oh well. Someone has to do it I guess.

Here's some worthless trivia.

If you form shift during PB, you will "dodge" the skill.