Monk Stuff

Heh, well the rotation is pretty much a priority "whack the mole" kinda stuff.

Hit Cap and Stat Priority

Accuracy Pre T5: 458

Accuracy for T5: 473

then Skill Speed to 400 at least, to get let you reliably get 5 attacks in during Perfect Balance.

Determination
Crit
Skill Speed

Rotation
_______________
Opening |
Touch of Death |
Dragon Kick |
Twin Snakes |
Demolish |
______________
Part One:
Dragon Kick
Twin Snakes
Snap Punch

Part Two:
Bootshine
True Strike
Snap Punch

Part Three:
Bootshine
True Strike
Demolish

Part Four:
Dragon Kick
Twin Snakes
Snap Punch

back to Part Two and Rinse and Repeat. Whenever Touch of Death falls off reapply.

Keep in mind that 25-30% of our damage comes from our Auto Attacks.

Damage Over Time

DoT's in this game tick every 3 seconds. Refer to this for my multidotting rotation for AOE.

Demolish Potency:

70 Upfront
40 DoT

3 Seconds: 110 Potency
6 Seconds: 150 Potency
9 Seconds: 190 Potency
12 Seconds: 230 Potency
15 Seconds: 270 Potency
18 Seconds: 310 Potency

Touch of Death Potency:

20 Upfront
25 DoT

3 Seconds: 45
6 Seconds: 70
9 Seconds: 95
12 Seconds: 120
15 Seconds: 145
18 Seconds: 170
21 Seconds: 195
24 Seconds: 220
27 Seconds: 245
30 Seconds: 270

So to rationalize using Demolish over Snap Punch, Demolish will need to tick for atleast 9 seconds before it becomes worse then just using Snap Punch.

Cooldowns

These are fairly self explanatory, the big one that increased my DPS by quite a bit was learning how to use Perfect Balance.

Before I used it as a DPS CD coupled with B4B IR and True Strike Spam.

The correct way to use it in many cases is to quickly build your Greased Lightning stacks, and that is in the rotation that follows:

Perfect Balance Rotation

Touch of Death
Perfect Balance
Demolish
Blood For Blood
Snap Punch
Internal Release
Snap Punch
Howling Fist
Dragon Kick
Steel Peak
Twin Snakes

and then Part One of your regular rotation.

Unless you are very certain that you will not lose your Greased Lightning stacks during a fight, I insist you keep it for this purpose, if you think you can keep you stacks, go for this:

(When you have 3 stacks of Greased Lightning)

Bootshine
True Strike
Demolish

Dragon Kick
Blood for Blood
Twin Snakes
Internal Release
Snap Punch
Perfect Balance
True Strike
Howling Fist
True Strike
Steep Peak
True Strike
Demolish
Dragon Kick

Part One of normal rotation.

AoE Rotation

For AoE you have 3 choices:

1: Multi Dotting w/ Demolish and Touch of Death.
2: Replace Snap Punch and Demolish w/ Rockbreaker
3: Perfect Balance w/ 5x Rockbreaker, which is basically giving a huge middle finger to your TP pool. Since this will drain 650 TP in 10 seconds flat.

Now for replacing demolish and Snap Punch w/ Rockbreaker we're gonna do some math.

Math

Rockbreaker: 130 Potency, 120 TP
Snap Punch: 180 Potency, 50 TP

So, for me my Snap Punches do about 430-460 damage. Rockbreaker goes 270-300.

So for the TP usage to be efficient here's the math I mentioned.

120/50 =2.4

445x2.4 = 1068

285x4 = 1140

So for you to rationalize using your Rockbreaker instead of Snap Punch if you're worrying about your TP down the road, you need to be hitting atleast 4 targets. If you're not worried about your TP, I direct you to option #3 or using this rotation on 3-4 targets, since it'll give you quite a bit of DPS, but will drain your TP hella fast.

Keep in mind we are the kings of Single Target DPS. But are punished heavily by losing our Greased Lightning stacks. So Primal EX fights you'll usually pull lower DPS compared to most other DPS classes.

Best in Slot Gear

I'll put four up, One for Post T5 473 Accuracy, Post T5 458 Accuracy, Current T5, and Pre T5

Pre T5: http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/LYSI
Current T5: http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/LYSH
Post T5 458 Accuracy: http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/LRGE
Post T5 473 Accuracy: http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/LYSK

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