The Monk Temple

[Aicasia]

Melee generally get screwed in raid content in lots of games, and in some even basic dungeons. You just kind of have to live with it.

High armor, lots of moving, deadly AoE. Bosses are usually not built to be melee friendly.

[kukurumei]

Melee generally get screwed in raid content in lots of games, and in some even basic dungeons. You just kind of have to live with it.

High armor, lots of moving, deadly AoE. Bosses are usually not built to be melee friendly.

That's not true. Melees in the game act as offtanks. While in many pug groups, the healer is paranoid and will heal everyone and everything at a scratch, realistically, mnk/drgs can live a stupidly long time compare to range paper weights. they may not be able to tank a boss, but adds are perfectly able.

MNK especially can take a crap load of hits before they run out of skills to defend themselves.

Many fights was made for the intention of melees fighting adds while the tank focuses on the boss. IF you don't have a melee in your light party, chances are, you're dead screwed.

archer/bards are paper, blm/whm fair better with some defensive spells, but once that interrupt gets going, they're dead.

It's a classic line up. Tank goes for the boss, melees are a cushion for the range back end.

[Aicasia]

That's not true. Melees in the game act as offtanks. While in many pug groups, the healer is paranoid and will heal everyone and everything at a scratch, realistically, mnk/drgs can live a stupidly long time compare to range paper weights. they may not be able to tank a boss, but adds are perfectly able.

MNK especially can take a crap load of hits before they run out of skills to defend themselves.

Many fights was made for the intention of melees fighting adds while the tank focuses on the boss. IF you don't have a melee in your light party, chances are, you're dead screwed.

archer/bards are paper, blm/whm fair better with some defensive spells, but once that interrupt gets going, they're dead.

It's a classic line up. Tank goes for the boss, melees are a cushion for the range back end.

I think you took my message the wrong way. I was making a general statement regarding raid bosses. I can name plenty of raid bosses/scenarios where melee don't get screwed over and are incredibly useful for adds and whatnot, but I can name more yet where they do get screwed over completely. They aren't useless, I never even implied that. I said bosses generally aren't designed to make melee life easy.

[Wingszerodrive]

Melee generally get screwed in raid content in lots of games, and in some even basic dungeons. You just kind of have to live with it.

High armor, lots of moving, deadly AoE. Bosses are usually not built to be melee friendly.

i hear ya but thats why i love playing melee dps classes its funner that way to adapt or well gets annoying running after the mob >.<

[mercenarri]

For gear based stats, to people go for accuracy, skill speed, or critical hit chance as their priority?

[Almalexia]

For gear based stats, to people go for accuracy, skill speed, or critical hit chance as their priority?

Crit/Determination is ideal based on the poor returns offered by skill speed. Accuracy is the most important of all; you'll want to cap hit rate before you start stacking anything else.

It's hard to say at this point how much ACC you need to cap hit rate against a given target. In beta 3/4, it seemed as though this table was accurate (pun intended) to determine the appropriate values of ACC you'd need. However, we do not see any enemies in endgame content with levels that exceed 50. This means the factors that determine hit rate are currently unknown.

That said, use as much accuracy as you need to hit as often as possible. If you never miss, swap out gear/food for something with more DET/crit. If you miss more than 5% of attacks, add more accuracy (in phase 3/4, the hit rate cap was 99.99 or 100%, but 95% is a good place to start). The best we can do right now is feel it out until there's a way to calculate hit rate in advance of doing content.

[EarlGrey]

For gear based stats, to people go for accuracy, skill speed, or critical hit chance as their priority?

Skill speed is my priority. Anything that has skill speed I want. I have a full rubellite HQ set, darklight eye patch and mixed and matched gear for skill speed. Once Greased Lightning is stacked to 3 I drop to 2 seconds GCD and the speed at which I output damage is intense. It seems to me Monk was meant to do consistent damage faster than everyone else. I find I start at the lower-end in DDing but then rise to the top once I get everything going.

[KV-1]

Hello, I have a question, and if it was already answered I apologize.

Was the issue with Pugilist/Monk DoT's (Touch of Death, Demolish) not gaining a damage bonus from Greased Lightning ever fixed? I know in the beta it was present, and I haven't heard anything else about it since the game officially released.

[Almalexia]

Hello, I have a question, and if it was already answered I apologize.

Was the issue with Pugilist/Monk DoT's (Touch of Death, Demolish) not gaining a damage bonus from Greased Lightning ever fixed? I know in the beta it was present, and I haven't heard anything else about it since the game officially released.

DoTs now get a bonus from GL and all other sources of damage+%. DoTs can also crit, and will receive a bonus from Internal Release.

[Teeko]

That's not true. Melees in the game act as offtanks.

I actually have been finding myself extremely useful in this situation in lower levels, as tanks struggle to get a hold of adds that the healer ended up taking with healing aggro. I'd much rather take the hits than the healer, of course.

Part of me wishes I had a high enmity ability for just this occasion, but I know people would get confused and misuse it to make a tank's life hell.