Rough Draft For a New Monk Opener

[SoulSkyheart]

As someone who has been on trying to maximize MNK’s new changes since 4.2 dropped, this is what I have come up with and has roughly a 200 DPS larger parse compared to pre 4.2 MNK.

Think of Monk as 4.1 Warrior where Warrior had 2 burst windows: Inner Release Berserk which is full burst window, and only berserk window.

Monk has shifted to having one huge burst window, which takes advantage of the opener and then 3 min into a fight where CDs line up together again (RoF, IR, Broth.). And priority maximization.

Ill make two more posts to greatly detail how these two phases of Monk work.

[SoulSkyheart]

Opener: Courel Form—>WT—>Demolish—> RoW—>DK—>FistoF—>TwinS—>STR potion/Diversion—>SnapP—>RoF&I—>Bootshine—>Broth. TFC—>TrueS—>Howling Fist&SteelP—>Demolish—>ElixerF-->Courel Form (before RoF ends)—>TornadoK—>SnapP—>PerfectB= 3 stacks.

Never use your OGCDs before using all your buffs, including Brotherhood. You will lose out 5% extra damage. Do not forget to turn on FistofFire.

Reason why i use 1 TK in this opener is because building up GL stacks mid RoF upsets the the bonus damage from GL on your OGCDs, not to mention, losing GL stacks mid RoF resets our attack speed buff, making us get 3 GL stacks harder which is a overall potency loss to all of your weaponskills.

Next post is the smaller burst windows with a priority system.

[Shiroe]

As someone who has been on trying to maximize MNK’s new changes since 4.2 dropped, this is what I have come up with and has roughly a 200 DPS larger parse compared to pre 4.2 MNK.

Think of Monk as 4.1 Warrior where Warrior had 2 burst windows: Inner Release Berserk which is full burst window, and only berserk window.

wait! 200 more overall or only in the opener / burst window??... if 200 overall, mnk is ffing OP