The Monk Temple

[Jonnykit]

I think I'll play my Monk most of the time fighting from the flank as using rear combos often led to tank losing hate to monk's massive crits when buffs and debuffs were all active. be sure to have marauder's dot and lancer's invigorate on your rotations as well. While Darklight is still good, Melded Gryphonskin gear gonna be best in my opinion for raids.

[Perthaneus-Magnum]

I am disappointed that NO ONE has listed FRACTURE (another available DoT) from MRD to their rotation. I keep all three up when going through my combos.

[VanWulfen]

A tip lot of people don't know is you use your Perfect Balance to give yourself three stacks of greased lighting by using snap punch since you ignore the restrictions of needing different forms, along with the fact snap punch does 180 potency from the side. To note, you don't gain any stances and it cancels out any form you're in. Before your Perfect Balance ends, you'll want to finish it with Twin Snakes for the damage buff.

[Alrai]

What do y'all recommend for stat allocation? Mostly STR or mostly DEX? Or another type of combination?

[Perthaneus-Magnum]

What do y'all recommend for stat allocation? Mostly STR or mostly DEX? Or another type of combination?

STR for sure but as of phase 4, DEX also affects parry/evasion like it did prior to 2.0, so it's not completely irrelevant.

[VanWulfen]

STR for sure but as of phase 4, DEX also affects parry/evasion like it did prior to 2.0, so it's not completely irrelevant.

You're going to put all 30 points into STR. Putting points into DEX isn't going to benefit you in no way.

[NoctisUmbra]

STR for sure but as of phase 4, DEX also affects parry/evasion like it did prior to 2.0, so it's not completely irrelevant.

DEX has no effect on evasion. MNK hardly ever parries at all. DEX is a complete waste on MNK.

[Perthaneus-Magnum]

You're going to put all 30 points into STR. Putting points into DEX isn't going to benefit you in no way.

Believe me, I did.

DEX has no effect on evasion. MNK hardly ever parries at all. DEX is a complete waste on MNK.

I will look at this again tomorrow.

[KaisaaVonFaust]

So will I be able to take things from Archer skill list? I was planning on going MNK archer skills I wanted to know if i could. What is best though in your guys opinion when it comes to secondary class skills? I want to make a top DPS mnk but its hard to find any info out there really.

Some people say Dex is needed on mnk, some people laugh and say its useless on them. I just want a little bit of info if you guys can give a little. I mostly put the points i did get in the OBT into STR. Still new to game and very confused

[NoctisUmbra]

DEX is completely useless for MNK. DEX is for ranged attack damage, and currently only useful really for BRD.

Being that MNK is a physical damage dealer, your priority will always be a higher base Damage stat on weapon and a higher STR value.