Monks very weak. Need rebalance

[Etgar]

I'm sitting on DL rings and some AF/AK armor. I will crit over 500 sometimes but mostly over 450, hell I ever crit my melee auto attacks over 200. Not sure how your damage is so low to be honest. Also, our aoe is fine in damage, just gets costly if we have to do it for too long.

[Lux_Rayna]

MNK dps is great from what I've seen through Titan HM. There's a reason fists of fire got nerfed. In any event, its really a matter of playing MNK "tight".

Make a simple rotation and execute it. Its that simple. Bootshine+True Strike+Snap Punch is the strongest combo you have, so it should be used as often as you can spare. Dragon Kick and Twin Snakes provide buffs/debuffs, and you really only use them to refresh those buffs/debuffs. Demolish and Touch of Death are DOTs and should be kept up at all times. If you execute all of these things your dps will always be great. You dont have to min/max it all to the last tick/second, you just have to execute consistently.

Finally, a MNK must be adaptable. A rotation is only a guideline. If a boss gives me his side mid combo, i'll proceed with flank skills. It beats moving when i dont have to. Same applies for rear changes. If stationary ill proceed with normal rotation. Its not hard.

[Truedragon]

Fist of fire got nerfed because they thought nobody would use Fist of Earth otherwise.

Big mistake. Our damage got gimped even more and still nobody uses Fist of Earth.

[Nibb]

Fist of fire got nerfed because they thought nobody would use Fist of Earth otherwise.

Big mistake. Our damage got gimped even more and still nobody uses Fist of Earth.

Maybe you don't, but I sure do. Why aren't you switching during the fights vs unavoidable damage?

[Valsh]

Fist of fire got nerfed because they thought nobody would use Fist of Earth otherwise.

Big mistake. Our damage got gimped even more and still nobody uses Fist of Earth.

It wasn't a big mistake. Our damage isn't gimped in the first place so it can't be gimped even more. You should be using fists of earth when taking damage with nothing to attack, which happens fairly often.

This entire thread is a trainwreck of a falsities starting with the title.

[Astralis]

Wow these monks who are saying their dmg is weak probably do not know how to play a monk or are too stupid to realize monks arent about big numbers.

Infact, in coil 2, we tried testing it with different classes and i concluded that monk really made the run faster. He might not be able to pull off big numbers but having a fast atk speed + fast gcd their skills are almost spammable and can crit for 450-500. Sure blms crit for 1.2k but that requires 40% proc from a 2.3sec cast time skills. While monk can already do 3 or more attacks in 2.5 secs time

[Subucnimorning]

Wow these monks who are saying their dmg is weak probably do not know how to play a monk or are too stupid to realize monks arent about big numbers.

Infact, in coil 2, we tried testing it with different classes and i concluded that monk really made the run faster. He might not be able to pull off big numbers but having a fast atk speed + fast gcd their skills are almost spammable and can crit for 450-500. Sure blms crit for 1.2k but that requires 40% proc from a 2.3sec cast time skills. While monk can already do 3 or more attacks in 2.5 secs time

For sure, Monks are great in turn 2...the disconnects are brief and once you memorize the rotation of the mini's + ADS the GCD loss is minimal. We put out pretty good DPS the entire encounter.

[Sheth]

While monk can already do 3 or more attacks in 2.5 secs time

hahahahahaha.... Nice... On what earth is your server located?

[Ascensi]

Best thing to pull top dps is to get hq gryphon gear and add crit to 500 and the rest into raw damage.

At that point the best monk ive grouped up with removed a lot of fluff and pnly uses a flanking rotation and occasionally uses the baclstab ability from lancers.

His rotation is touch dk twin strikes punch, dk ts punch. And hes pullng 300 plus in coil. Something to cconsider just like all games there ajustre fluff abilites that should only.be used situationally or not.at all once your gear gets to a certain level. Using.his same rotation i can pull 200 plus without breaking a sweat. And my gear sucks. If i frontload all my damage and go for burst the only izsue i run into is running out of tp. But ill pull aggro if i blow up too much. He also has an equally geared dragoon and maxing his rotation hes lower dps all the time.

[Nibb]

hahahahahaha.... Nice... On what earth is your server located?

Uh, it's not hard to do, ever hear of howling fist? It's not on the GCD. I'm hoping you can figure the rest out.