The Monk Temple

[t00nc3ss]

Interesting.... so if people don't automatically do things your way they are instantly wrong and stupid? Sounds childish but alright. Why drive a car anywhere? Are you too lazy to walk everywhere? Why fly a plane? Can't you run? Why use a stove? Can you not start a fire by yourself?
The real question is why not use a macro?

This is like the blind leading the blind, or in this case, a self-righteous idiot defending a lazy idiot.

Obviously you have zero idea on how a MNK plays; 3 of the abilities he has on the 1st macro are buffs, spamming them lessens effectiveness. 1 ability has a STUN built in, bad when stuns have to be precise in crucial moments.

Can spamming that macro work? Yes, probably go unnoticed by most players on simple zerg runs like CM. Anything past that and you'd look like a fool using it and never progress.

[Rust_]

This is like the blind leading the blind, or in this case, a self-righteous idiot defending a lazy idiot.

Obviously you have zero idea on how a MNK plays; 3 of the abilities he has on the 1st macro are buffs, spamming them lessens effectiveness. 1 ability has a STUN built in, bad when stuns have to be precise in crucial moments.

Can spamming that macro work? Yes, probably go unnoticed by most players on simple zerg runs like CM. Anything past that and you'd look like a fool using it and never progress.

Like I said I only use the macro selectively, so please learn to read before you jump ships and claim others are idiots. I would never use this macro for progression fights but rather I believe that MNKs are the only class able to use a single button macro spam and I'd like to take advantage of that when I can. Also, I am currently on Turn 4 BC and am topping AoE and ST dps easily, so I know what I'm doing. There are more than just buff effectiveness issues when using the macro, such as TP drains (Especially the AOE macro) that you would have to look out for but once you actually get past your 3rd rotation you can swap to this macro and it'll become viable so long as you keep hitting your DoTs as well as position yourself for Bootshine + Impulse Drive. Obviously this would never be viable for those aiming for max DPS, but it only falls about 30 DPS shy from the perfect rotation (would have to recheck) which makes it definitely viable for those farm runs.

Also helps heaps for bosses such as Chimera where you have to stack on its back leg and not move.

[Shosasosa]

Trying to make Macros for monk problem is with Greased Lightning your skill speed drops from like 2.5ish seconds to like 2.05 seconds with 3 stacks. so how to make one macro to do the same combo with the changing recast on abilities? you can either must make a combo and have a wait of 2.5 but you lose out on half of the benefit of greased lightning or manually do each combo, but that really limits your space on your bar with 9 different abilities to combo with..... any tips on how to manage abilities?

[ilJumperMT]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVDqzSBUhKY

I tried that rotation. Its more easier then complex rotations with impulse drives and bootshine and works brilliant on bosses with tail whips. What you think?

[cane]

Need a bit of advice concerning attributes. What should I go for when picking up new accessories? Skill speed, Determination or Critical?

[Vektrat]

Need a bit of advice concerning attributes. What should I go for when picking up new accessories? Skill speed, Determination or Critical?

This is personal opinion:

From a 50 perspective (before I didn't really bother, if it gave more STR, I considered it an upgrade and got it, rare times I got gear dilemas with the same STR attribute, and iirc when it happened I went with crit->speed),

Following the common way to gear up it is almost impossible to go wrong (Peltast -> Darklight -> AF2/Allagan), as long as you have 470ish Accuracy, which kind of comes alone.

At the point where I have to upgrade to Allagan/AF2 I try to prioritise crit then det, keeping a minimum of accuracy.

I've never paid much attention to extra skill speed (I used to while leveling, but the difference is so small that well...), basically because our class already gets insane skill speed buffs so that gear skill speed seems to be almost negligible (at least when considering partial upgrades, even if you don't try to, you'll have a decent amount of stacked skill speed when upgrading for other stats).

Anyway, I believe as long as you get the upgrades in the class progress path you can't go very wrong

[kukurumei]

I don't recommend anyone using macros, it'll get you killed an kicked.

There will be times you need to change on the fly (erruptions, winds, etc)
There will be times you are flank only (AK)
There are times you must must must be on exact position (demon wall)
There will be times you can't use certain moves (Macroing stun=instant kick. A stun resisted ifrit is a wipe)

There are just too many instances where you have to change it up. And learning your position with your skill makes it a lot easy on muscle memory, rather then learning a rotation on muscle memory.

[JokingCat]

i was thinking about new monk skills and here are 2 examples.

New skill. Simple - Consume all your GL stacks for a Finishing Blow, dmg increase depends how many stacks you have. Now how many times do you lose your gl in dungeons like AK or CM or in Hard Modes. You gonna lose GL anyway why not losing it for a little bit of dmg even if it hits for like for 500?

Second Skill is a rework of Arm of Destroyer. Fist of Earth skill allows you using Arm of Destroyer with silence, TP cost increase x2 (only in Earth stance), damage reduced so you cant just spamm it for long. This gives Monk the ability to Silence some bosses/mobs. I know you can use perfect balance and use AoD for silence but come one...

[Arkista]

Quick question is it better to use ToDs when GL3 is up? I don't play on PC so I can't use a parser. Also playing with training dummies just doesn't feel right are they scaled to your level?