Fracture and Monk

[alsims2007]

Even in 2.0 it was a dps increase but it cost way too much tp to be effective and 100% uptime was/is unrealistic. Now in 3.0 demolish received a duration increase. Most of the time tod fills the gap to prevent clipping demo but when it's already up its either clip and lose a tick or use fracture.

So I'm my mind I give frac that 40 (making it 260 potency, 10 less than tod). So by using that one gcd to delay refreshing demo you gain a skill that is 30 potency higher than true strike (less than that due to dragon kick not affecting dots) plus 40 potency by not clipping demo.

Gaining 70 potency every 30 seconds or so isn't huge but an increase is an increase to me.

Edit: fixed potencies. I don't know where I was pulling those numbers from

[Shortie]

Fracture is a DPS gain, no doubt about it... but...

It isnt part of the normal rotation. Only use it if you have no chance of losing Dragon kick, Twin Snakes and Demolish.

The basic rule of thumb is, if you have 5+ seconds left on dragon kick and all other buffs/debuffs are good, throw in a Fracture.

Over the course of a fight it will add around 30 DPS.

[Craiger]

It should only be used as a filler if used at all, and that results in a DPS gain for like 5 DPS...

So in conclusion, only use it if TP isn't an issue anyways. Will not really make a difference anyways, so unless you can't stand the idea of clipping dots, there really isn't any need for it.

EDIT: that being said, if someone tells you to drop it off your hotbar because it's a DPS loss... they don't know anything about MNK