The Monk Temple

[Vektrat]

Anyone tried Garuda Hard mode yet on Monk and if so any tips?

Here's what I try to do on Garuda (note that these are MNK specificthings)

• As stated, time Rockbreaker+Howling fist on the plumes (it is important you get howling fist when the plumes are next to garuda, because the cooldown is exact for the next spawn)
• Save Shoulder tackle for emergencies to keep greased lightining up (specially to move from plumes to garuda)
• Keep your stance rotating on the plumes, use Rockbreaker if enough aligned plumes
• If red add spawns close, I always try to DoT it before the green reaches the raid
• Use Blood for Blood (if you have it) in Garuda-only phases
• Save buffs for sisters, and trigger them before they reach the raid (IR, defensive stuff)
• If you dodge any skill, use Haymaker
• Pop Mantra when sisters spawn and reach the raid
• I switch to Fists of Earth when Reckoning comes, I don't know if it helps though

[Kuraran]

So, I've been playing for about one and a half week now and I'm having several questions concerning what I should do when I hit 50.

First of all, I'm planing on learning some crafting Jobs when I hit 50. What are the Jobs that I should consider on getting and leveling?
While browsing through some of the posts here, I noticed that some of you talked about AF2-Equipment, so I was wondering how you'll be able to upgrade your AF-Stuff later on (same story for the Sphairai, since there seems to be a Sphairai+1).

Something else that I need help with is keybinding of skills. I'm having difficulties on finding something that's comfortable for me regarding this issue (for now, I'm going with the standard keybindings and left-clicking on skills if necessary).
Is it better to just write macro's for standard rotations I'll be using, or is it good to change the key-bindings around the WASD-Keys so that I don't have to stretch my hand to it's limits to use one particular skill?

[Vektrat]

This is some information I gather in a personal wiki, most of the stuff is compiled from other players, here are the lists:

• Don't complete rank 3 hunting log of GC (save the boost for the patch)
• Level secondary classes to get cross-skills
• Level tradeskills (to repair cheaper?)
• Gear up

To gear up:

• Spam Castrum Meridianum and The Praetorium for philosophy tomestones (no loot!)
• Spam Amdapor Keep and The Wanderer's Palace (difficult instances) to get good loot, and tomestones of philosophy and mythology
• Farm Ifrit for your weapon (alternatively get your GC weapon, a bit worse)
• You need 900 philosophy for the relic, make sure to save them
• Get access to Bahamut's labyrinth (progress killing Ifrit, Garuda, Titan…)
• Work towards relic weapon

[Vektrat]

Tiers of Equipment
Weapon

• Grand Company / Crafted - First level 50 weapon you want to get
• Darklight - costs Allagan Tombstones of Philosophy
• Primal - Ifirit < Titan < Garuda
• Relic - requires a long quest chain and for you to beat all three HM Primals
• Relic+1 - costs Allagan Tombstones of Mythology
• Allagan - drops from Coil of Bahamut

Armour

• Artifact (blue Class gear) / Grand Company
• Amdapor Keep drops
• Darklight - costs Allagan Tombstones of Philosphy
• Artifact 2 - costs Allagan Tombstones of Mythology
• Allagan - drops from Coil of Bahamut

• Castrum Meridianum: 100 Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy
• The Praetorium: 100 Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy
• The Wanderers Palace: 50 Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy
• Amdapor Keep: 80 Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy and 40 Allagan Tomestone of Mythology

[Vektrat]

What you want to do at level 50 is unlock and begin running the level 50 dungeons, especially Amdapor Keep. While Castrum and Praetorium are faster Tombstone of Philosophy farms, Amdapor Keep armour is slightly better than your Artifact gear and while collecting it you are also farming Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy and Mythology.

After Darklight
Once you have your Darklight gear (or even while still working towards a full set) you can start on your Relic weapon quest. This requires you to have completed all of the main story line and done of all the class/job quests for the specific weapon you are after. Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy (ATP) tokens can be exchanged for Darklight gear and Allagan Tomestones of Mythology (ATM) for Artifact+1 from NPCs in Revenant's Toll - Mor Dhona.
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Copy paste over, hope it helped

[Vektrat]

Now writting again ^^

I re-arranged all my skills at level 50, no macros.

I kept all the buffs to be manually clicked, all the combo stuff in 1234, alt+1234, and situationals in ctrl+1234 (areas, shoulder tackle...)

As for tradeskills... I'm leveling up leatherworking together with mining, it requires a great amount of dedication, and I doubt it is worth it, but well, I'm into such stuff. I picked LW because of the relic craft requirement, however I could have gone with any other and just purchase it. I believe LW aligns with monks, I hope in a future they add more useful stuff for endgame (I don't have anything to be crafted that would benefit me atm). Mining just to pick a gathering skill... it complemented leatherworking in some cases.

Having one tradeskill at least to level 20-25 is good for the materia melding stuff

Gearwise, what I did was:

1. Farm Ifrit to get my weapon.
2. Run wandering palace occasionally for fun / see how it was / random upgrade
3. Run Amdapor Keep to farm tomestones while at the same time getting the gear set (pelast) (random runs with friends to castrum and praetorium)
4. I upgraded all my right inv side (jewelry) with Darklight from the tomestones, at the time everything was upgraded, I was full on the left side with the green set from adampor keep
5. Now I aim to start getting AF2 pieces slowly, finish my relic, and upgrade the green set with Darklight slowly with the spare tokens

[Kuraran]

Woah, I really didn't expect such thorough explanations of the stuff I asked~
I'd really like to now the name of the personal wiki, so I can look up some stuff if I ever need to.

Other than that I really appreciate your help on that and here's the last bit of my post, which I couldn't write because of the restriction:

Some tips on that and how you guys keybinded your skills would be much appreciated :3

Other than that, I'm having a blast with this class so far and I hope that it'll be as much fun to play in the future, as it is now ^-^

EDIT: I just noticed there is no PM function ;_;

[Vektrat]

Here's my keybinds screenshot, they're nothing spectacular but they work for me (I want to make a few modifications to keybind the buffs at some point... but it's so overwhelming that I get lazy )

With those keybinds I can do the stance-rotations with 1234 and alt+1234 (2-3-4 being dots, on trash I just use 1234 and maybe alt+1), all the other stuff is pretty situational or random. If I want to do the AE combo it's usually ctrl+2 -> ctrl+3 -> ctrl+4


I didn't put my personal wiki, because it has other uninteresting stuff, and because I run it home in a raspberry... so it'd be bad if it got overloaded, but well, here you go (don't share it too much, it's public enough ) - There are no PMs here

[NoctisUmbra]

• You need 200-300 mythology for the relic, make sure to save them

You need 900 Allagan Tombstones of Philosophy as the final step in making your Relic Weapon. None of Mythology whatsoever.

• Amdapor Keep: 70 Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy and 40 Allagan Tomestone of Mythology

Amdapor Keep provides 80 Allagan Tombstones of Philosophy and 40 Allagan Tombstones of Mythology.

[Vektrat]

Fixed, as I said I copied some of the stuff from other people, haven't reviewed everything