Need help understanding new MNK.

[Amh_Wilzuun]

It wasn't as hard as people thought in EW and now it's even easier in DT.

Fury stacks (aka "Ball Meter"):

This is just for your downtime rotation. All you do is just hit dragon kick, twin snakes, and demolish to receive balls. And when you have a ball in that form do bootshine/leaping opo, true strike/rising raptor, and snap punch/pouncing coeurl to spend balls on more damage. You will have proc lines on the "ball giver" moves when you are out of balls for a form and get proc lines on "ball spenders" when you have balls so you can literally just follow the dotted lines.


Beast chakra/Blitz:

This is also even simpler now that we no longer have any buff timers. You only use perfect balance to do a blitz while you are buffed by Riddle of Fire. You will use perfect balance twice in the opener and during the 2 minute buff window, and you will do perfect balance once during the odd burst windows. So it's a 2-1-2-1-2-1-2 pattern of how many perfect balances you use when ever Riddle of Fire comes off cooldown. You will always do a double perfect balance window when you have both brotherhood and ROF up, and only one PB combo when it's just ROF.



Which blitzes do I use though?:

Well you want to use Phantom Rush as much as possible since it's our biggest hit, so what you do is do both a solar and lunar blitz combo in the opener and then do phantom rush with both nadis on deck (the purple and white orbs) during your odd ROF window. Then you just repeat this forever. When Brotherhood and ROF is up do a lunar and solar combo. When just ROF is up spend them on phantom rush.



How do I do "Solar" and "Lunar" combos?:

You need a purple and white orb to phantom rush. You get a purple orb (lunar) by pressing Perfect Balance and then doing three moves of the same form. Which three moves though? You'll want to do Opo form moves (dragon kick and bootshine) because buffed bootshine does the most damage out of all of your combo moves. So you will always do bootshine > DK > bootshine OR DK > bootshine > DK. To maximize buffed bootshine usage you will actually do an Opo move before doing the lunar combo. You also get a free formless fist buff after every blitz move and after Fire's Reply. How do we use our free formless fist? Always on an Opo Move... Whenever we can opo, we will opo. Opo is big damage. Consult the balance discord to see when exactly what the recommended openers look like