Thread: Monk 3.0 CHAKRA UNLEASHED

Originally Posted by Phireblast

Here's some worthless trivia.

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

you can use that to trigger haymaker, not really sure when it will be useful but hey, lol

What I do for Purification in A2S is Use purification sometime during wave 2. Lets you pop 1-2 meditations before wave 3. Finish wave 3 (you will probably use invig during this but you can figure that out). 2 meditations on the way over to wave 4 (first gobwalker wave?). 2 meditations on the way to Widow, Use purification when ready to. Figure out a good time to use meditations again. At that point usually I can forgo doing some damage to use GCDs for meditation every now and then.

Using Purification for the 2nd wave in A2S is rather... pointless. You should try to use invigorate first because it's on an actual timer rather than locked behind meditation stacks as well. Waves 3&4 are the big AOE waves so that's when I use both. You can generally get one stack between each wave without affecting your DPS. On Gobwidows, rather than avoiding the clipping of Demolish with Fracture, use meditate. You can skip Touch of death the same way but I don't run into enough TP issues to justify not using it and it's nice to have when you can't immediately get to the rear/flank or the tank is moving.

Originally Posted by Ossom

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i can fit in the snap punch quite comfortably there, in fact i even have time for a bootshine afterward, i do however skip out on the ToD leading up to that for 2 reasons
1) the dot will get a dimished effect anyway because of the invulnerability
2) makes keeping GL3 a lot safer

Originally Posted by Zamii

i can fit in the snap punch quite comfortably there, in fact i even have time for a bootshine afterward, i do however skip out on the ToD leading up to that for 2 reasons
1) the dot will get a dimished effect anyway because of the invulnerability
2) makes keeping GL3 a lot safer

Boss doesn't take DoT damage while it changes forms? I'm not really keen on ignoring ToD with the new Demolish duration.

Originally Posted by Ossom

Boss doesn't take DoT damage while it changes forms? I'm not really keen on ignoring ToD with the new Demolish duration.

your of course welcome to make your own decision of to do it or not, but personally i dont find it worth the risk of loosing GL3 just for a nerfed ToD

Originally Posted by Zamii

your of course welcome to make your own decision of to do it or not, but personally i dont find it worth the risk of loosing GL3 just for a nerfed ToD

I would agree with you if we can say for certain that its a nerfed ToD. That's why I asked. If it was then I would agree with you and not do it. But surprise surprise, went into AS3 tonight with a little more skill speed and had no issues keeping GL3 for the first phase transition.

Anyways. I do TS > DK first because someone did the math and said TS > DK is slightly more potent. Anyways, you don't lose TS or DK by doing one before the other, there is no risk so might as well do it. Doesn't really matter in the long scheme of things.

I do Demolish third because I rather have it buffed by GL2 even if its 2 GCDs late (1 & a Half Ticks late). I believe that its still a DPS increase but I'm too lazy to do the math again so I'm gonna just go with my gut for now until someone else says otherwise.

The rotation I posted is pretty normal, move the CDs around as you like (mostly B4B and IR) so that they give you the most bang for your buck.

Originally Posted by Ossom

Also altered my rotation if anyone cares.

Shift to Courel > Snap > Pb > Snap > Demo > Twin > B4B X DK > Pot X Snap > IR X ToD > Elixer Field X Bootshine > Howling X True > Steel Peak X Snap > Shoulder X DK > Forbidden X Twin > Demo.

Did you modify this specifically for AS3 timings, or is this now your standard opener?