Monk Demolish skill debuff

[Garet]

Hello everyone. Just curious how much damage are we losing if we renew demolish at the same time as twin snakes instead of reapplying it every other two rounds?

I am loving monk but the challenge for me always is that twin snakes and demolish not being on the same duration disrupts my flow. I do not have the best of reflex and memory so having to keep looking at my demolish debuff among all the boss mechanics is frustrating for me.

[Powercow]

So every 6 cycles you'd do 3 demolishes and 3 Snap Punches instead of the usual 2 and 4. Assuming you hit the positionals on those, that'd mean every 6 cycles (or ~35ish seconds) you'd miss out on 180 potency. Certainly not the end of the world, but over the course of an 7.5 minute fight that'd be ~2340 potency, or roughly a Phantom Rush, Elixir Field, and Phoenix Rising combined's worth of potency.

It'll take some practice to get it down. I recommend fighting a training dummy with your UI hidden (either through the game or just place a piece of paper over your hotbars) and just do it for a few minutes until you can do it by simple muscle memory. Believe in yourself!

[Garet]

So every 6 cycles you'd do 3 demolishes and 3 Snap Punches instead of the usual 2 and 4. Assuming you hit the positionals on those, that'd mean every 6 cycles (or ~35ish seconds) you'd miss out on 180 potency. Certainly not the end of the world, but over the course of an 7.5 minute fight that'd be ~2340 potency, or roughly a Phantom Rush, Elixir Field, and Phoenix Rising combined's worth of potency.

It'll take some practice to get it down. I recommend fighting a training dummy with your UI hidden (either through the game or just place a piece of paper over your hotbars) and just do it for a few minutes until you can do it by simple muscle memory. Believe in yourself!

wow you are a very positive person haha. I am choosing between remaining monk or changing to ninja this expansion.

I love all the changes on all the jobs in EW especially ninja and monk. Monk finally has that finisher that I have been looking for ever since I started playing it. Before it felt like we are just punching and kicking without anything else haha.

[Asdif_Laoeg]

I use a different way for the monk rotation. I use the positionals (even the removed one) and play at a rythm of positionals. With this i don't need to watch the enemy debuff and my buff bar. I can just ignore them. With this it was for me more easy to follow the rotation. Here an example with the rythm:

side side rear
rear rear side
side side side
rear rear rear
side side side
rear rear side

Without this was i could not play the monk since watching 4 bars (my skillbar for oGCDs), the job gauge (to see when i have 4 chakras), my buff bar and the enemy debuff bar is too much for me.

[Garet]

I use a different way for the monk rotation. I use the positionals (even the removed one) and play at a rythm of positionals. With this i don't need to watch the enemy debuff and my buff bar. I can just ignore them. With this it was for me more easy to follow the rotation. Here an example with the rythm:

side side rear
rear rear side
side side side
rear rear rear
side side side
rear rear side

Without this was i could not play the monk since watching 4 bars (my skillbar for oGCDs), the job gauge (to see when i have 4 chakras), my buff bar and the enemy debuff bar is too much for me.

Yea my problem is when at bosses and trying to mind the mechanics I tend to get lost suddenly and have to look up constantly if I am going to do demolish instead of snap punch after twin snake haha. So in a lot of fight I just end up simplifying and doing twin snakes and demolish on the same set. haha