Monk 3.0 CHAKRA UNLEASHED

**Aikota** · 02-03-2016 12:46 AM

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.

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.

**Lilyth** · 02-03-2016 02:38 AM

Originally Posted by Aikota

You're not getting the crit on the first bootshine.

You can't get a guaranteed crit on the first bootshine after Perfect Balance, regardless of your opening rotation. After PB falls off you are formless, even if you use Snap Puch/Demo right before PB ends, so a regular bootshine is unavoidable. It can still crit though.

**Ossom** · 02-03-2016 09:26 AM

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

**Morzy** · 02-03-2016 04:56 PM

Thank god, i hate form shift

**DSaint** · 02-05-2016 12:19 PM

Originally Posted by Ossom

Snap > PB > Snap > Demo > Dragon Kick > Twin > B4B > Snap > IR > ToD > XPOT > Boot > Elixer > True > Howling > Snap > Steel Peak > Dragon > Shoulder Tackle > Twin > Forbidden > Demo > Bootshine.

hey guys, I have a question about this opener in Op post:

Why to use first DK with perfect balance? Its not better to use TS since it have more pot (and cost less tp)? You can't apply Dk debbuff with Perfect Balance ON...

**CGMidlander** · 02-05-2016 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by DSaint

hey guys, I have a question about this opener in Op post:

Why to use first DK with perfect balance? Its not better to use TS since it have more pot (and cost less tp)? You can't apply Dk debbuff with Perfect Balance ON...

Twin Snakes is 140 potency 60TP, Dragon Kick is 150 potency 50TP (If by TS you meant True Strike, True Strike also costs 50TP)
And you can apply the DK debuff in PB.

**Ossom** · 02-06-2016 03:00 AM

Originally Posted by DSaint

hey guys, I have a question about this opener in Op post:

Why to use first DK with perfect balance? Its not better to use TS since it have more pot (and cost less tp)? You can't apply Dk debbuff with Perfect Balance ON...

You can apply Dragon Kick buff with Perfect Balance on, that is what Perfect Balance does. Gives you access to all the bonus's behind each stance'd attacked.

**Kahr** · 02-06-2016 03:18 AM

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.

**Kahr** · 02-06-2016 03:40 AM

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?

**Ossom** · 02-06-2016 05:17 AM

Originally Posted by Kahr

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?

I've noticed this too, quite a while ago. I just don't do it, I just prefer to do Demolish 3rd, just because its got 20% more Dmg if you wait 2 (Long) GCDs, so I choose to do that.

A lot of monks do Demo > Snap > Snap, I would say probably 90% of the monks I have seen, on and off my server, on twitch, on reddit, etc.. do Demo > Snap > Snap, because the best Monks do Demo > Snap > Snap, look at world first clear videos and the Monks in there do Demo > Snap > Snap. So it makes sense that that method will be the on to propagate to other monks to continue doing that form of Opener. Its a very heavy part of the Monk "Meta", and Demo > Snap > Snap is most likely going to be the go to opener for the Majority of Monks for the foreseeable future.

Arguably, Demo > Snap > Snap should be better, you should always do the highest Potency skill you have that won't mess up your rotation first as a rotation is just about building potency as fast as possible. Its a Greedy Algorithm, but when you factor in Buffs and their effects, things change.

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