Monk 3.0 CHAKRA UNLEASHED

[Phireblast]

http://puu.sh/jtFqS/7b01436029.png

since everyone seems to be curious about where you should be in terms of dps, i did a few tests and got one of my more avg crit rates, if anything its on the low side, regardless you can see it for yourself.

for reference, that with x-pot and black truffle (yes, im cheap) and party buff.

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/3315531/
you can check my gear there

Used the same things you did(barring some savage gear...) and got this




Fracture really wasn't working out for me in a test parse I did. I have too much skill speed.

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/7183123/

[valho]

I saved my chakra stacks for Purification since I'm burning through TP on Faust.

Any other tricks I might try to use to pick my dps up a little more?

Faust fight is just 2m 45s, so you only need 1 invigorate, use your chakra for Forbidden Chakra.
575 acc should be fine since you should always hit your positional of rear/flank for Faust, the miss might be on the adds when you use Elixir Field or Howling Fist.

[Zamii]

Fracture really wasn't working out for me in a test parse I did. I have too much skill speed.

our skill speed is almost identical, it will probably take some practice to get used to, but its a good payoff once you get used to it.

[Shortie]

kind of a newbie question, but asking mainly for As2...

How do you guys perform your AOE rotation? In small packs I do Arm ->Twin Snakes -> Rockbreaker, keeping Elixer Field and Howling Punch on cooldown.
However, as you guys will point out, you will drain TP like no other.

So is there a better sustainable DPS for it? I have been doing BS->Twin->Rockbreaker too, but I feel I am missing something..

THanks!

[Ricdeau]

Here's a solo no buffs run I did yesterday.

You guys will see that like Zami's breakdown mine will also show that Fracture is a decent increase. He appears to use it more frequently than myself. It's a little high on the crit side, but nothing too outlandish. It still falls into my average crit spread, but just higher on the spread. I'd say ~24% is more common with no buffs for me.


My gear is nothing special this is at i190. I have full i190 from Alex normal and i200 weapon: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/2870211/

One thing I'd recommend to people getting used to using Fracture is that when you're unsure if it's going to cause you to drop DK/TwS just hold off on using it. Also if you do enough runs without Fracture at all you'll start to see patterns for Demo and ToD being up that allow for Fracture to be inserted. Learning these patterns helps you to time it so that you aren't causing drops in buffs.

[Phireblast]

And about the TP sink? My TP is completely gone before 3 minutes when incorporating Fracture, and it was claimed that my skill speed(600 give or take) was similar to some people here. What do I do about that?

[Ricdeau]

I don't know how you're going through your TP so fast unless you're trying to overuse Fracture. I have 613 skill speed by the way. When you start running low you have to curb it's usage at times to make the next Invigorate.

[Phireblast]

Can I at least see a vid or something of how people incorporate it in parses?

[Thrustie]

If you're doing 1100-1200 dps, you're probably not doing anything "wrong". Maybe you're firing your oGCDs a bit late and delaying your GCD. Or maybe you were late refreshing your DoTs a time or 2. Don't start witch-hunting yourself as that's still a very respectable number. Some of the numbers you see here and on reddit are from Mnks in leading edge progression groups. It's great to strive to equal them but don't think you're terrible if you find yourself lagging behind them a bit.

[Thrustie]

How much dps would you estimate you're going up you using fracture? My controller hotbars are so full and I'm worried trying to train myself to switch hotbars to use it and switch back is going to drag me down significantly.