Are Monks weakest DPS?

[Auroth]

Currently monks are the best dps in the game. The trick is to stop using demolish and touch of death. I'm not kidding. There are spread sheets out there, you can look it up for yourselves. But currently monks can parse for approximately 190-210 dps in level 45 AF gear. Other classes peak at about 170.
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Wait what? Can you please please provide a source or some more info? Is this still true? This is the only place I have ever heard of such a thing. I have heard that monk can be the best dps in longer fights, my friend is convinced that Black Mage is just the best dps at everything ever, which doesnt really make any sense. But I am trying to find more info on the best monk rotations etc.

[Sylve]

I dropped Fracture from my boss Rotation. I open with ToD, Twin Snakes and Demolish. Once the DoTs are rolling, and I've got the Twin Snakes buff, i just alternate between Twin Snakes and True Strike, Demolish and Snap Punch. Keeps up my GL stacks, my Twin Snake buff and my DoTs with none falling off.
On movement heavy fights, ill lay in with Fracture since i cant get full uptime for maintaining the alternating rotation.

The biggest thing i found that improved my damage though, is positioning. Initially i just sat behind the boss all the time. Now I'm constantly swinging between Flank and Behind in order to get the bonus crit from Bootshine and damage from True Strike, Twin Snakes and Snap Punch.

Not using Snap Punch from Flank is a very noticeable damage drop. I've seen a *lot* of Monks that don't take advantage of the Flank bonuses, and their damage suffers as a result.
As a reference, my Snap Punch under 2x GL from behind hits for 78, but will hit for 110 from Flank. Twin Snakes is the same. Always use your Flank bonuses ^_^

PS: I'm only 37 >_>

[LunarEmerald]

We're gonna need parser data on the test dummy to see that.

[NoctisUmbra]

MNK is one of the top, if not the top, single target DPS jobs right now.

The difference in DPS between all the jobs isn't that large overall, however they all do specialize in their own way of DPS. This is with the expectancy that a MNK will be forced to lose GL3 a few times during a fight due to mechanics. If there are no mechanics that lead to MNKs dropping GL3, then they are ahead by a significant margin in DPS.

[Rosencranz]

personally i think monks are the COOLEST job here. °-° i love their animations. And they do a lot of damages too! *-*°

Just one thing, honestly. Personally i've hit 196 dps against demon wall. So isn't true that we bard peak at 170. u.u

Other than that, monk are funny, and cool, and good looking. Don't look down on monk! èOé

[Subucnimorning]

Back on track...,

I dropped Fracture from my boss Rotation. I open with ToD, Twin Snakes and Demolish. Once the DoTs are rolling, and I've got the Twin Snakes buff, i just alternate between Twin Snakes and True Strike, Demolish and Snap Punch. Keeps up my GL stacks, my Twin Snake buff and my DoTs with none falling off.

Not using Fracturecis a definite DPS loss. It can be awkward to fit it into a rotation well due to the odd duration, but it is certainly worth it.

[aswedishtiger]

summoner is worst, monks are second worst /thread

[Rainsford]

summoner is worst, monks are second worst /thread

The parser's floating around I've seen have SMN dps in between BRD and everyone else. Although, while playing my SCH, all the SMN I've seen just spam Ruin.

[Nassano]

Progressed through and completed are different. A wow raid usually takes up to a month for the best guilds to beat. The rest are a joke. SWTOR is very quick. Rift, it depends. But most are a joke because most mmos are trying to change mmos from hotkeys to button mashing... all imo of course

[Spythe]

Anyone that think Monks are the lowest DPS is terrible, have no idea what they are doing, or is just bitter over something.