MNK Crit and Skill Speed recommended stats?

[Grimmjow_Jaegerjaques]

How bad is the DoT clipping with massive skillspeed?

My GCD without GL is 2,38 (1116 Skill Speed).
You can use two Snap Punchs after Demolish and you wont clip your next Demolish.

[KaosPrimeZero]

yeah im looking at around 1200 for Skillspeed atm, not stacking too much but focusing more on crit. i Think i got my crit to 1600 with Direct Hit at around 1200. Need t play around with it but under 1k SkS i can see my dps is lower. I can no longer get as much GCD in to do the damage i once could when i had 1100ish

[Taunee]

i once make my monk skill speed above 1500.. It was very fun..

[KaosPrimeZero]

@1240 Skill speed my RoF was really fast, @1150 it feels slugglish. Hmmm tempted but at 1150 i can do my opener which is nice

[Fireselecta]

I'd say people need to start rechecking their research. None of the top monks are pushing SkS. It's waste with current available numbers. The priority is Crit > DH > Det > SkS currently. Some are putting SkS over Det but either way you really dont want to pick up more than like 1k of each anyway

First : Go on fflogs, pick some of top MNK on several fights, then go to the Lodestone and try to check their gear set. You'll see that most are going with a heavy crit as a very priority. Then, you can find tons of different builds. Sadly, the stat weights AREN'T RELAESED YET, so everything that you'll claim will be only speculations.
Second :One of the reason why stat weights aren't released yet is because of the complexity of how SkS scale with the other substats. (at least from what I understood, and I'm not a math expert)
Third : No one here said you should go full SkS, just that you shouldn't avoid completely this substat. Just like any other substats to my opinion.
Four : Trust me, you can give a shitty gear set to a top MNK, he/she will still be on top. Knowledge of the fight/positionnals/buff raids optimization are more important than having THE BiS.
To prove I don't need to recheck my research, here are some links :
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...tats_compared/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...n_spreadsheet/

Those guys (The Theoryjerks), are working days and nights to give us a way to find our BiS easily, so yeah, I will trust them more than anyone else

Hi All,

What is the ideal skill speed for monk? By this i mean at what point does it start showing diminishing returns? 1000 skill speed?

Also for Crit, whats the best spot for this before we invest more in direct hit?

In addition, SkS is also a question of feeling. I personnally prefer when my GCD is shorter than 2.40/2.39 without GL3 otherwise, I feel slow AF (you need 1049 SkS for this : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...XG8/edit#gid=0).

So in the end, to my opinion, I would say to go Crit first because of Deep Meditation, then try to get to the SkS required for the GCD YOU want, and then try to get a decent amount of DH and Det (with a slight priority for DH maybe ?)