Thread: Monk 3.0 CHAKRA UNLEASHED

Originally Posted by Muppet57

Soooo, whats the best opener now?

Here's what I do. Not sure if the best though.

5 chakra stacks + Form shift into Coerul > Demo > PB > Snap > B4B > Snap > pot+IR > DK > T. Snake > Howling Fist > Snap Punch > ToD > Steel Peak > Boot > Elixir Field > True Strike > S. Tackle > Demo > F. Chakra > normal rotation.

I've also started incorporating meditation if I have > 4 secs on DK since Meditation has 1.2 recasts. It is very possible to do meditation every 3 gcds after snap/demo though with the duration of GL 3 increased to 14 secs and would almost encourage it.

When it comes to buff management, the great thing about our buffs is they share the same CD length as many of our other oGCDS. So our openers work out really well in lining up our buff. As long as you don't hold Elixer Drive or Howling Fists, it will be up for every single Internal Release (our strongest buff). Other than that, we are unable to line up B4B with 2 Demolishes anymore unless we are willing to clip (I am definitely willing to clip at like sub 5 seconds, I just haven't looked into B4B Demo X 2 yet).

Using Meditation in your rotation is a dps loss and you should never do it.

I didn't use Fracture at all. People here constantly say it's a DPS increase, but i'm just not seeing the difference even with application rules applied.

Originally Posted by Phireblast

I didn't use Fracture at all. People here constantly say it's a DPS increase, but i'm just not seeing the difference even with application rules applied.

I would like to repeat that fracture is situational at best. If your using a mini window parser you probably won't see the difference at all and most likely see your dps fall too since it is a DoT you will not see the damage spike. I try to use it all the time to time my other DoTs but that's just me.

You likely wont be able to notice the difference in parse numbers. The increase is so small that it falls within the typical variance of a parse. Its more of a calculated DPS increase, and to also help other DoTs line up better and prevent clipping.

Fracture is about 0.8% improvement on GCDs if used only as a spacer (and only used properly). It's about 1.2% improvement on GCDs if used as often as possible. (Note that these figures are derived using a probably incorrect SS DoT buff estimation). GCDs are approximately 84% of your non-AA DPS. AAs are like... 26ish% (I don't know about theoretical performance there dummy; I'm just basing that off my static monk's Alex performance). The EV is on the magnitude of about 5~6 DPS.

So yes, you are not going to notice the difference. Regardless, it is an extra DoT, it has more total potency than your average rotational GCD, and it makes more out of your Demolish ticks if you know what you're doing.