The Monk Temple

[NoctisUmbra]

Rapiso is both right and wrong depending on how you look at it.

The changes above will make playing MNK at a standard/expected level more complex than it is now. The reason is as it is now you can basically tell a new MNK to stay on flank and spam the basic flank combo worrying only about SP, HF, Demo and ToD while managing 2 buffs and they will be playing at near optimal sustained DPS. However, the standard in 2.1 with Bootshine and True Strike being so explicitly worthwhile and Demolish being favored from the rear, the standard will involve effective strafing and managing more skills.

On the flip side, the changes also make Impulse Drive pretty much unnecessary, and likely not ever worthwhile. Any MNK pushing the limits of DPS as of now will make use of Fracture and Impulse Drive when the situation calls for it. With proper Impulse Drive use, MNK can put out a great deal of burst DPS at the cost of ridiculous TP drain. A worthwhile trade-off in some fights for some mechanics, such as Dreadnaughts in Turn 4 or Asclepius in Turn 5. This, simplifies the MNK endgame.

So basically, if you are a beginner/average MNK, you will have more work to do. If you are an adept at pushing the most juice you could get from MNK, you will have less work to do. Overall, there will be more consistency in how MNK rotations look from player to player as they made certain choices much more obvious.

[pandabearcat]

Yea you don't need LB if you kill everything 20% faster than everyone else.

To give an idea, imo with good uptime these buffs (assuming everyone was on par before), 4 monks = 5 other dps.

[jObEfiSH]

So is Internal Release going down to 20%? They say the enhanced Trait is unaffected but is that just them doing their miscommunicating thing? So does that mean the 10% boost to the skill didn't change but that still means it will be going from 30% to 20%? That is going to be what I am assuming.

[Sylari]

So is Internal Release going down to 20%? They say the enhanced Trait is unaffected but is that just them doing their miscommunicating thing? So does that mean the 10% boost to the skill didn't change but that still means it will be going from 30% to 20%? That is going to be what I am assuming.

Given that Enhanced Internal Release says "To 30%" and not "by 10%" and the change explicitly states that the trait is being unaffected. I'm leaning toward it just being a nerf to the cross class.

[jObEfiSH]

Given that Enhanced Internal Release says "To 30%" and not "by 10%" and the change explicitly states that the trait is being unaffected. I'm leaning toward it just being a nerf to the cross class.

Yeah but "Increase by 10%" is just not how they word things but that is how it functions. Based on how things tend to get lost in translation I am fully expecting it to be 20% since on a technical standpoint the enhanced version is still Enhanced by 10% which they might get confused on detailing. Guess we will find out Tuesday though :P.

[Peptaru]

I'm siding with all the logical folks who realize it was a nerf for the cross-class users, namely brd but it also hits drg. In line with the text and the spirit of the changes, you should just expect it to remain unaffected for mnk. They even pointed out that the traited one will be unaffected. I think you're worrying for no reason.

[Peptaru]

All monk party? That's FFXI talk and we'll have none of that here!! /torch&pitchfork!

[Norondor]

All monk party? That's FFXI talk and we'll have none of that here!! /torch&pitchfork!

well we'd still have a bard for march except in this game the haste buff is on a sch pet soooo

[TheHomieData]

inb4LFG5mnk+blmGO!

[Naryoril]

now i'm wondering if it's still worth getting blood for blood, since it's damage increase has been nerfed from 20% to 10% for monks.

And if not, what are the options?